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Juneteenth celebrates a milestone in African American history. Do some, in and out of Washington, want to sweep that history ...
The state of Kentucky introduced an African American Heritage Trail today, offering visitors nearly 50 primary sites and ...
Juneteenth serves as a powerful reminder of how far we’ve come against great odds and a call to action to continue investing ...
Vevette Hill-Nwagbaraocha attends All Saints Catholic Church, also on the north side. She, too, is hopeful and excited about Pope Leo, regardless of how he identifies. But his lineage, she said, ...
For Juneteenth, here's our growing database of African American burial grounds in New Jersey — and what they mean to us today ...
There's an ongoing attempt to erase knowledge of these atrocities and pretend as if they were just figments of Black folks’ ...
New Orleans celebrated the return and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to Germany for racist research practices in the 19th century.
A New Orleans committee announced the remains of 19 Black Americans whose skulls were taken to Leipzig, Germany, in the 1880s will receive a jazz funeral.
The festival returns to downtown Ann Arbor, on streets once filled with vibrant Black-owned businesses, on Saturday, June 7.
More than 150 years after their deaths, the individuals were honored with a multifaith memorial and jazz funeral — bringing ...
Black-owned businesses have been pushed out of the historically-Black neighborhood now known as Kerrytown, but they still ...