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What is Juneteenth? The history and meaning behind the federal holiday
TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 days agoMany universities and private companies have joined state governments in recognizing Juneteenth as...
On this day in history, April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth is killed by Union troops for murdering...
Fox News via Yahoo News· 7 days agoUnion troops hunted down John Wilkes Booth, the Confederate sympathizer who shot President Abe...
Jackie Robinson was a Republican until the GOP became the ‘white man’s party’
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 5 days agoLike millions of other Blacks during the first half of the 20th Century, legendary baseball player...
Toxic gas adds to a long history of pollution in southwest Memphis
Medical Xpress· 7 hours agoFor many years, Rose Sims had no idea what was going on inside a nondescript brick building on...
Col. Lafayette Jones Jr. remembered as instrumental in preserving one of the earliest free Black...
Daily Press· 1 day agoA cousin of Col. Lafayette Jones Jr. remembered him as a disruptor. Dozens of people attended a...