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The 1898 Wilmington Massacre Is an Essential Lesson in How State Violence Has Targeted Black Americans

September 7, 2025 0 128

In the summer of 1865, just after the Civil War, Union commanders in the battered port city...

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Minneapolis Police Department Is Withdrawing From Union Negotiations in Wake of George Floyd’s Death

September 7, 2025 0 83

(MINNEAPOLIS) — The Minneapolis Police Department will withdraw from police union contract negotiations, Chief Medaria Arradondo said...

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George Floyd’s Death and the Long History of Racism in Minneapolis

September 7, 2025 0 106

The May 25 death of George Floyd, 46, marks one more chapter in a long history for...

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The Overlooked Black History of Memorial Day

May 30, 2020 0 116

Nowadays, Memorial Day honors veterans of all wars, but its roots are in America’s deadliest conflict, the...

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As Washington D.C. Weighs Reopening, African Americans in the Nation’s Capital Brace for the Worst

September 9, 2025 0 98

It’s just past 7 a.m. as Tavis Clinton’s sanitation truck pulls to a stop in an alley...

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The U.N.’s Tainted Legacy in Haiti

January 8, 2020 0 82

Opinion|The U.N.’s Tainted Legacy in HaitiThe agency’s peacekeepers left a trail of cholera and fatherless children in...

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Looking for Frederick Douglass in Savannah

December 31, 2019 0 114

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Frederick Douglass passed through this elegant Southern city only once, for the briefest of...

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Montgomery, Ala., Was a Hub of the Slave Trade and a Center of the Civil Rights Movement. It’s About to Swear in Its First Black Mayor

December 8, 2025 0 776

Hanging on the wall in Steven L. Reed’s old office as Montgomery County’s probate judge was a...

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Rep. John Conyers Dies at 90

November 16, 2025 0 1145

(DETROIT) — Former U.S. Rep. John Conyers, one of the longest-serving members of Congress whose resolutely liberal...

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Compromise of 1877 – The South Restored to Power

November 20, 2025 0 958

The Hayes Tilden Compromise of 1877 What was the Compromise of 1877, and why did it irrevocably...

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