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  • Published on Dec 21, 2024

    The Catholic Church should canonize these worthy Black Americans

    There is not a single African American Catholic canonized as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. This omission persists even as Black Catholics have remained faithful despite the church's complicity in slavery, segregation, discrimination and racial …

    Source: National Catholic Reporter - Neutral
  • Published on 18:47 GMT

    Opinion: Progressives have some soul searching to do after electionMoe Davis 

    Progressives are still in a funk over Donald Trump defeating Kamala Harris. When Trump beat Hillary Clinton in 2016, progressives took some solace from the fact that most voters rejected Trump. That’s not the case this time. Trump won in the anachronistic …

    Source: Asheville Citizen Times - North Carolina - Neutral
  • Published on 14:32 GMT

    Chicagoans of the Year in the Arts: All our names for 2024

    As we approach the end of 2023, the critics and columnists of A+E reflect on the year to highlight some people who have made a difference in the city’s arts. Kristin and Javier Ramirez on Dec. 9, 2024, at their store Exile in Bookville in the Fine Arts …

    Source: Chicago Tribune - Illinois - Center-right
  • Published on 15:07 GMT

    Florida Mandates Black History In Schools, But Many Doubt Accuracy

    by Daniel Johnson December 22, 2024 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has faced criticism for actions seen as limiting the teaching of Black history in school. Although Florida announced it will require that Black history be taught in public schools–and pointed …

    Source: Black Enterprise - Label Pending
  • Published on Dec 20, 2024

    How slavery shaped the modern West

    “When I began writing this book, I was fully aware of the deliberate silence and ignorance surrounding the major contribution of Africa and Africans to the making of the modern world we live in,” writes Howard W. French in the introduction to Born in …

    Source: La Croix International - Uncategorized
  • Published on Dec 19, 2024

    UMass Slavery North Initiative Exploring Region’s Ties from New Campus Home

    AMHERST — In both Hadley and Northampton, as well in as other communities throughout the Connecticut River Valley, Black women were among those enslaved by the region’s European settlers in the 1600s and by those living in Massachusetts until slavery was …

    Source: UMass Amherst - Neutral
  • Published on Dec 18, 2024

    Brown’s Simmons Center co-organizes major Smithsonian exhibition on global legacies of slavery

    WASHINGTON, D.C. [Brown University] — A decade-long global research initiative led by Brown University’s Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice has culminated in a new, major Smithsonian Institution exhibition at the National Museum of …

    Source: Brown University News - Rhode Island - Neutral
  • Published on Dec 21, 2024

    ‘I didn’t realize the role rice played’: the ingenious crop cultivation of the Gullah Geechee people

    As a former deputy state underwater archaeologist, Mark Wilde-Ramsing can’t help but look down. While rowing around North Carolina’s Eagles Island, at the tip of the Gullah Geechee corridor, he noticed signs of human-made structures, visible at low tide. …

    Source: The Guardian - Center-left
  • Published on Dec 21, 2024

    Andrew Samuels: Late-1800s newspaper publisher, pastor, educator in Shreveport

    SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS)—A man born into slavery in DeSoto Parish in 1857 did not have many opportunities to become educated as a child, but that didn’t stop him from studying on his own and becoming one of, if not the first African American …

    Source: KTAL - Louisiana - Neutral
  • Published on Dec 21, 2024

    Caribbean Matters: Caribbean holiday traditions, featuring Bad Bunny

    Caribbean Matters is a weekly series from Daily Kos. Hope you’ll join us here every Saturday. If you are unfamiliar with the region, check out Caribbean Matters: Getting to know the countries of the Caribbean. Holiday traditions in the States might include …

    Source: Daily Kos - Left-wing
  • Published on Dec 21, 2024

    Resolution reached in lawsuit over public access to Beaufort's Robert Smalls House

    BEAUFORT — More than two years of legal wrangling over the historic Robert Smalls House has ended as the Historic Beaufort Foundation and the National Trust for Historic Preservation reached an agreement, bringing the Foundation's lawsuit to a close.  …

    Source: The Post and Courier - South Carolina - Neutral
  • Published on Dec 21, 2024

    Tinsel and twang

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee’s capital is a city of transplants. While it’s rare to meet a native Nashvillian, residents are quick to welcome newcomers with warm southern hospitality in this fast-growing mecca of music and health care. The Listening Room …

    Source: Winnipeg Free Press - Neutral
  • Published on Dec 21, 2024

    What is birthright citizenship? The history of the American principle

    As President-elect Donald J Trump prepares to implement sweeping policy changes affecting American immigration and immigrants, one of the issues under scrutiny by his allies appears to be birthright citizenship – the declaration in the 14th Amendment to …

    Source: The News Minute - Uncategorized
  • Published on Dec 21, 2024

    Reparations Advocates Prepare for Backlash During Next Trump Term

    Joshua Lott/The Washington Post The Rev. Robert Turner addresses demonstrators as he leads a protest for reparations in 2020 in Tulsa. The Washington Post 17:12 JST, December 21, 2024 EVANSTON, Illinois – The reparations movement achieved some …

    Source: The Japan News - Neutral
  • Published on Dec 20, 2024

    In Louisiana’s River Parishes, one museum is helping residents’ piece together their histories

    The land in Louisiana’s River Parishes is populated with lost families. Unmarked graves of formerly enslaved people — sometimes totaling more than 1,000 in a single area — have been found in tree clusters in the middle of empty fields. In 2018, Shell …

    Source: The Advocate - Louisiana - Label Pending
  • Published on Dec 20, 2024

    Western Winter: Your Guide to Colorado’s Cowboy Culture

    Out West, the cowboy life was—and still is—a year-round affair. A ranch never sleeps, not even in winter. Cattle need to be herded, fences checked, and horses fed, even when the snow swirls around your boots and the temperatures are so cold they frost your …

    Source: Atlas Obscura - Neutral
  • Published on Dec 20, 2024

    From the right: Of birthright citizenship and the 14th Amendment

    By Don Schmitz Our Constitution is explicit — 14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. If you are born …

    Source: Malibu Times - California - Label Pending
  • Published on Dec 20, 2024

    Mercer Island 2024: A year in review

    January Northwest Yeshiva High School (NYHS) junior Didi Desmond said it was an eye-opening experience when foreign delegates from the Sharaka nongovernmental organization visited the Mercer Island school and spoke with students about their hope for peace …

    Source: Mercer Island Reporter - Washington State - Label Pending
  • Published on Dec 20, 2024

    Art history detectives for a semester, Brown students research mystery of the ‘Black Gospel Window’

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — It’s one of the most intriguing art-history mysteries anywhere. And in the fall semester, a team of Brown University students traveled to historical sites and archives throughout Rhode Island to contribute meaningful …

    Source: Brown University News - Rhode Island - Neutral

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