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OPINION | REX NELSON: Back to Africa | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette· 2 days agoNoted Arkansas historian Kenneth Barnes taught for many years at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway. Barnes, with whom I once served on the Arkansas Humanities Council, is the expert ...
The value of uncomfortable conversations
Wisconsin State Journal· 6 days agoFor starters, I warn them that First Amendment history is littered with horrible people. Over the coming 15 weeks, we will confront the antisemitic...
Pro-Palestinian protesters at Xavier charged using 1800s law used against the Ku Klux Klan
Gannett via AOL· 3 days agoThe pair still face the misdemeanor trespassing charges. Disguises law dates to 1800s but no record...
Topeka was at the center of Brown v. Board. Decades later, segregation of another sort lingers
Seattle Times· 13 hours agoThe lesson on diversity started slowly in a first-grade classroom in Topeka, where schools were at...
NC Senate panel approves controversial bill that targets protests, bans masks in public
NC Newsline via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe North Carolina Senate Judiciary Committee approved an amended version of House Bill 237 on...
John Feffer, AlterNet
The Raw Story· 18 hours agoDuring this period of violence, the mobs sometimes cooperated with the authorities. Although white America repressed the memories of Red Summer for many decades, that shameful chapter of our ...
New WayPoint Center to assist the under-served opens in Lexington’s east-end neighborhood
Lexington Herald-Leader via Yahoo News· 3 days agoLater Palmer opened a second pharmacy in the West End Plaza near Georgetown Street. On Sept. 4,...
NC may change public mask laws. But what does that mean for those with health concerns?
The News & Observer· 2 days agoLawmakers advanced legislation on Tuesday that would repeal a health and safety exception to North...
Opinion: Restoring Confederate names on schools is a lesson in why symbols matter
CNN via Yahoo News· 2 days agoPutting the names of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson back on Virginia schools is reminder of how...
An American Gangster at 100: J. Edgar Hoover's Authoritarian Legacy
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 6 days agoFreedom Riders were often met with overwhelming violence by both police and the Ku Klux Klan, who...