Public hearing on Carroll’s history of racial violence set for Saturday in Westminster
A hearing, Saturday at Saint Paul’s United Church of Christ, 17 Bond St., in Westminster will focus on the history of ...
Writer Lee Hawkins connects abusive childhood in Minnesota to the Jim Crow South and slavery
Although “I Am Nobody’s Slave” takes the form of a memoir, Minnesota native Lee Hawkins’ book becomes something bigger: an ...
What Happened When America Emptied Its Youth Prisons
James Forman Jr. is a professor of law at Yale University and a former public defender. He is the author of “Locking Up Our ...
How Early ‘Law & Order’ Lets Us Relive New York’s Gritty Past — And Explains America’s Future
The first 20 seasons, now streaming on Hulu, let us time travel to crime-ridden 1990s New York, which also feels eerily like ...
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Colorado’s Past Includes Horror of Lynchings, and CO Newspapers Were Complicit
Joel Estes, namesake of Estes Park, brought five slaves into Colorado, Chloé Duplessis pointed out at a recent meeting of the ...
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Leader of Fringe Political Party Advocates Lynching to Stop LGBTQ+ Pride Event
The leader of a fringe political party in Florida called the Jeffersonian Party appeared at a Naples City Council meeting on ...
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Juan Carlos Reyes reflects on 'decolonizing fiction' in 'Three Alarm Fire'
This is KUOW's book club, and we just finished reading Juan Carlos Reyes' fiction collection "Three Alarm Fire." ...
'Great Migrations: A People on the Move' review: Deeply told, deeply felt story
Gates ("Gospel," "Making Black America," "Finding Your Roots") argues here that the Great Migration "continues to shape the ...
Black communities are using mapping to document and restore a sense of place
When historian Carter Woodson created “Negro History Week” in 1926, which became “Black History Month” in 1976, he sought not ...
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SLOW BURN THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS “PARADE” AT THE BROWARD CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
Slow Burn Theatre Company presents “Parade,” a powerful and poignant musical revival based on the true story of the trial and ...
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The path forward for America, a reflection on our diverging futures
In the 1960s where I entered the struggle for justice, there were no thoughts of an African American president, a Black woman ...
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Another spot added to African-American Heritage Trail in Springfield
OzarksFirst is celebrating Black History Month by honoring the African-American history in the Ozarks, including the African-American Heritage Trail that runs through ...