African American Civil War hero to be honored outside SC’s state grounds
A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert ...
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ACPL honors Black Civil War soldiers with new exhibit
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Nearly 180,000 African American men fought for the Union in the Civil War. A new exhibit called ...
Steve Bannon Hurls More Fire Bombs at MAGA as He Re-Ups Civil War
Steve Bannon isn’t letting the MAGA battles of yesteryear fade away. The bombastic conservative podcaster took personal shots ...
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In the GOP Civil War Over Immigration, Both Sides Are Racists
In battling Loomer, Musk and his allies presented themselves as opponents of racism. Musk tweeted that “those contemptible ...
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Milestones Of The Civil Rights Movement
After African ... Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. gave one of his best known speeches, inspiring the assembled crowd with the words, "I have a dream." Randolph also spoke: "Fellow ...
Jimmy Carter’s Enduring Legacy On Human Rights
Carter’s life reflected a deep commitment to equality, justice, peace, and human rights. His vision of fair global relations ...
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In Sherman’s Wake
The hidden story of enslaved Georgians who, however briefly, seized freedom during the Union general’s famous march to the ...
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An Unlikely Army of Militia and Pirates Shocked the World by Defeating the British Army at the Battle of New Orleans
Forces commanded by Andrew Jackson fought the British in the Louisiana port city in the last standoff of the War of 1812 ...
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Blackface Minstrelsy
Before the 1830s, when blackface minstrelsy begins formally, African Americans, people whom we ... to blackface and minstrelsy before the Civil War. And so in a way rock and roll led me to a ...
When did the Civil War begin? Most say April 1861, but many historians say it started earlier.
Most say the Civil War began April 12, 1861, with the first shots fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. But many ...
Jimmy Carter’s life intersected with slavery’s legacy. His record on Civil Rights is complicated
Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at the age of 100, spent his life intertwined with America’s and the world’s enduring legacy ...
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Come home, Ghana told African diaspora. Now some Black Americans take its citizenship
Ghana recently granted citizenship to 524 people from the Black diaspora, and most were Black Americans ACCRA, Ghana -- Flipping through a family album, Keachia Bowers paused on a photo of her as ...