As the national art and celebrity worlds coalesced at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Met Gala in early May, the ...

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One of the earliest Memorial Day observances occurred on May 1, 1865. Organized by freed slaves and white missionaries.

In 2020, after a summer of protests rocked U.S. cities, the words “Black Lives Matter” went from the rallying cry of racial ...

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon wrote in a letter to Johnson posted on ... administration's efforts to "wipe us out of history." "Black folks will be here in this city and in cities ...

BANGOR, Maine — Maine is full of history. But one piece that often goes unrecognized is the role Black Americans and civil rights leaders played in building the state we know today. A walking tour led ...

In a letter, the lawmakers said, “This flagrant attempt to erase Black history is unacceptable and must be stopped.” Rep. Terri Sewell, an Alabama Democrat who sits on a House committee ...

“It has been said that if history was taught in the form of a story, it would never be forgotten” (Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936). For the past three years on a day in May, the spirits of past ...

A North Carolina legislator says President Donald Trump is the reason why one of the world’s largest corporations decided to scrap a Black History Month recognition on its widely used calendar app.

Presidents to follow will all be better students of history than Trump. In those first 100 days whom had he sought for counsel other than Elon Musk, and only now has that relationship soured.

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said the Trump administration is “declaring war on truth-telling” in America and “cheapening the truth and greatness of our nation” through its attempts to sanitize Black history ...