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The new memorial to lynching victims will open this spring, along with a museum that will trace grim parts of the African-American experience, from slavery to mass incarceration.
Jeannine Hill Fletcher teaches theology at Fordham University and is author of the forthcoming Grace of the Ghosts: A ...
I'm a professor with deep ties to Black studies, but I was surprised that my kids couldn't discuss the significance of Juneteenth.
But at the very spot where this lynching unfolded nearly 70 years ago – nothing ... And that, said Thompson, is the point. In his new book, "The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi" ...
I did feel that the day was going to come eventually, but it’s not a song I ever wanted to sing,” Julian Lennon told me in ...
Opinion: Juneteenth is a second Independence Day for America This is difficult information to learn, and I imagine especially so for white people.
Grok was launched from Musk’s AI startup xAI back in 2023 as a rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Late last year, it was added to the ...
There was an even more recent murder frame-up in Norfolk County. The cops did it as a favor for Whitey Bulger, the serial killer who was represented at his own trial by Hank Brennan, the petulant ...
Kyra Davis Lurie's 'The Great Mann,' a Black reimagining of 'The Great Gatsby,' combines a family story with a little-known part of L.A. history.
Juneteenth went from a little-known celebration of emancipation to a federal American holiday. Along the way, there has been both progress and pushback.
This story was originally reported by Errin Haines of The 19th. Meet Errin and read more of her reporting on gender, politics ...
I looked at the importance of our government embracing free speech and not trying to stifle it or intimidate (or deport) ...