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Since 1976, the contributions of Black pioneers have been remembered during Black History Month, celebrated every ... to explore the neglected past of African Americans. As a historian himself ...
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A bill that could have made African American history count as a required social studies credit in Virginia high schools was vetoed last month by Governor Glenn Youngkin.
shortly after Carla Hayden was sworn in as the 14th librarian of Congress and the first woman and first African American to hold the position, Roll Call spoke to her about her place in history and ...
Obama’s mother pointed him toward the history and culture of African Americans. Stanley ... Not quite. A month after Obama entered the White House, a CNBC personality named Rick Santelli ...
And on its 50th anniversary, in 1976, younger members of the Association for the Study of African American History extended Negro History Week to Black History Month. While all of these facts are ...
Tax cuts for the rich, program cuts for low-income Americans, Star Wars 2.o, and allying with white South Africans.
By Jim Beaugez On the grounds of a former hospital in one of America’s most historic cities, a community is reclaiming the ...
Superspeedway, Spire Motorsports has earned one top-five and a pair of top-10 finishes. Rajah Caruth, driver of the team's No ...
Trump wrote on his Truth Social account last month ... as well as South African policies.” In Trump’s actions, Dan Magaziner, professor of history at Yale University, sees a broader discomfort ...
The first American to translate Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy and one of the fireside Poets, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in ...
Discover how the first Memorial Day was organized by freed African Americans in Charleston, SC, in 1865 to honor Union soldiers. A powerful, little-known origin story of remembrance.