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Unveiling The Untold History Of Black Cowboys And Shattering The Myth Of The White West
BuzzFeed via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAnd yet the majority of their legacy has been whitewashed and written over. One notable example of...
Historic Borax Wagon Destroyed in Blaze at Death Valley National Park
Smithsonian Magazine· 18 hours agoIn the 1880s, workers began extracting borax from the ground in Death Valley. To haul the valuable...
Today in History: April 22
The Herald Bulletin· 4 days agoOn April 22, 2000, in a dramatic pre-dawn raid, armed immigration agents seized 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban boy at the center of a custody...
Biden celebrates computer chip factories, pitching voters on American 'comeback'
The News-Times· 13 hours agoPresident Joe Biden on Thursday sought to sell voters on an American “comeback story” as he...
Tom Peeples, consensus-building former Hilton Head mayor and home builder, dies at 71
Island Packet· 4 days agoTom Peeples, Hilton Head Island’s mayor for 15 years and council member for six years before that,...
Historic artifact in Death Valley National Park destroyed in fire
San Francisco Chronicle· 5 days agoThe first blaze was reported behind the Borax Museum just after midnight on April 4. A valuable...
Chicago’s response to migrant influx stirs longstanding frustrations among Black residents
Richmond Times-Dispatch· 4 days agoThe closure of Wadsworth Elementary School in 2013 was a blow to residents of the majority-Black...