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I SEE U, Episode 116: America’s Legalized Corruption with Legal Scholar Mehrsa Baradaran | Houston...
Houston Public Media· 1 day 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· 11 hours agoLike millions of other Blacks during the first half of the 20th Century, legendary baseball player...
One Way America Can Meaningfully Address Poverty
Time via Yahoo Finance· 4 days agoA white family in Atlanta, Georgia today has 46 times as much wealth as a Black family; a racial wealth gap that is exactly the same as it was nationally...
Juneteenth or Jefferson Davis? Ala. state workers may have to choose.
Washington Post· 5 days agoAlabama state Rep. Juandalynn Givan and other Black lawmakers have lobbied for years to have the...
Ato Blankson-Wood rebuilds a famous 'Cabaret' role from scratch
NBC News via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAs the first Black man to play Clifford in "Cabaret" on Broadway, Ato Blankson-Wood rebuilds his...
Iowa politicians are still trying to teach history to your children
Iowa Capital Dispatch via Yahoo News· 2 days agoRepublicans in the Iowa Legislature are determined to meddle in your kid’s classroom. The House and...
Oliver Lewis won the first Kentucky Derby atop Aristides. His story doesn't end there
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo Sports· 5 days agoOn Feb. 26, 1865, when Lewis was 8, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing...
Johnson: We banned ‘divisive concepts.’ So, why do we still have Confederate holidays?
Birmingham News· 4 days agoHow did you commemorate Confederate Memorial Day? Did you invite a few family and friends over, sing...
On this day in history, April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth is killed by Union troops for murdering...
AOL· 2 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 ...
For some, voting is more than a civic duty — it’s continuing the fight of their ancestors
Philly.com· 3 days agoLelia G. Johnson, 65, was finished with her primary day duty by 8 a.m. She didn’t actually have to...