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What is Juneteenth? The history and meaning behind the federal holiday
TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 days agoOn June 19, 1865, federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas and informed 250,000 enslaved people...
50 Juneteenth quotes that capture the true meaning of the holiday
TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 days agoA portmanteau of the words “June” and “nineteenth,” the annual federal holiday recognizes the end of...
I SEE U, Episode 116: America’s Legalized Corruption with Legal Scholar Mehrsa Baradaran | Houston...
Houston Public Media· 5 days agoFast-forward more than 160 years to today, Black households currently have a total wealth of just...
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...
Race relations task force in Burlington call its quits without funding or much support
The Journal Times· 2 days agoA task force on improving race relations in Burlington has voted to disband after a three-year...
Iowa politicians are still trying to teach history to your children
Iowa Capital Dispatch via Yahoo News· 7 days agoRepublicans in the Iowa Legislature are determined to meddle in your kid’s classroom. The House and...
Toxic gas adds to a long history of pollution in southwest Memphis
Staten Island Advance· 15 hours agoFor many years, Rose Sims had no idea what was going on inside a nondescript brick building on...
April marks the beginning and end of the American Civil War
Daily Press· 3 days agoApril is a good time to explore local sites that focus on the American Civil War, which began on...
On this day in history, April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth is killed by Union troops for murdering...
AOL· 6 days agoOn this day in history, April 26, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was killed when Union soldiers tracked him down to a farm in Virginia 12 days after he fatally ...