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By Kathryn Lundstrom, Adweek Courageous Conversation took out a full-page ad in the city’s 100-year-old Black publication As Tulsa, Okla., prepares for President Trump’s Saturday night campaign rally, Courageous Conversation…
By Rebecca Shabad, NBC News Juneteenth is currently recognized by 47 states and the District of Columbia as a state holiday or observance. WASHINGTON — Senators on Friday announced legislation…
By Morgan Dunn, All Things Interesting Rather than accept defeat, up to 20,000 die-hard Confederates moved to the slaveholding Empire of Brazil to establish colonies of Confederados. Their descendents still…
By Tim Kephart, CBS 46 ATLANTA (CBS46) – Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard said he has received death threats after the decision to indict former APD Officer Garrett Rolfe…
By Astead W. Herndon, The New York Times The president arrives in a city that is in the midst of addressing long-ignored racist history. People there believe the country as…
Kadir Nelson is an award-winning American artist whose works have been exhibited in major national and international publications, institutions, art galleries, and museums. Nelson earned a Bachelor’s degree from Pratt…
By Katie Mettler & Brittany Shammas, The Washington Post The former sheriff’s sergeant was charged with manslaughter after the fatal shooting of a black father of three. State officials say…
By Michael S. Rosenwald, The Washington Post Racial terror followed passage of the 13th Amendment in 1865 In December 1865, seven months after President Abraham Lincoln took a bullet to…
By Dylan Byers, NBC News Reed Hastings has been involved in education reform since the late 1990s, including backing charter schools — a subject that has polarized the education community.…
By Danielle Garrand, CBS News New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order on Wednesday recognizing Juneteenth — a day that commemorates the end of slavery in America —…