Trump Cracks Down on Diversity Initiatives Celebrated in His First Term
Top Education Department officials during the president’s prior administration routinely hailed diversity efforts. Now ...
Talks on for vote naming House press gallery after Frederick Douglass
The effort to name the House Press Gallery after abolitionist Frederick Douglass is getting a push forward as Rep. Byron ...
Enslaved people took refuge at pioneering hotel on NC Outer Banks. But perils awaited
A major flash point came when Union soldiers entered Hotel De Afrique and “attacked the defenseless occupants with knives and ...
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Working Together: How Members of the Black Press and Black Labor Movement Changed the World
Discover how the AFRO and the Black labor movement have shaped history, and the ongoing impact on labor rights and civil rights.
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Biography of Civil War Veteran Banned as Military Schools Cull Books and Lessons Under Trump Orders
A review of content taught at the Department of Defense Education Activity schools has resulted in restrictions of lessons on ...
60 years of progress in expanding rights is being rolled back by Trump − a pattern that’s all too familiar in US history
(THE CONVERSATION) For many Americans, Donald Trump’s head-spinning array of executive orders in the early days of his second term look like an unprecedented effort to roll back democracy and the ...
Syria’s mass graves: Accounting for the dead and disappeared is crucial for the nation to heal
(THE CONVERSATION) Shortly after the fall of Bashar Assad in Syria in December 2024, reports emerged of mass graves being uncovered in liberated areas.
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Historic Austin newspaper urges Black residents to buy a home.
In celebration of Black History Month, we've been looking at old issues of the Free Man's Press, a weekly Austin newspaper ...
Shapeshifter: The Never-Ending Enigma of Bob Dylan
In cinemas today you can watch Timothée Chalamet impersonate Bob Dylan in the biopic A Complete Unknown. For Esquire, Mick Brown — one of the rare journalists to have interviewed the great man in ...
Pub's history may date back to Civil War battle
A landlord with a keen interest in history has claimed he has uncovered evidence his pub may have existed at the time a ...
Federal Resignation Program Moves Ahead After Judge Signs Off
The Trump administration moved on Wednesday to close entries for the deferred resignation program for federal workers and continue to next steps, after a federal judge’s assent. The court victory ...
‘Revolutionary’: Projects uncover Kentucky’s Black history, one digital document at a time
More and more projects across Kentucky are uncovering Black history through historical documents, then putting them online ...