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Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge should be renamed in honor of the late John Lewis
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July 17, 2020 will be forever remembered as the day that two Titans of the Civil Rights Movement, Reverend Cordy…
If “All Lives Matter,” then the NCAA must cancel College Football
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Should lynching trees in Southern towns get chopped down?
Having spent the better part of my adult life calling for monuments to Confederate leaders to be removed from courthouse…
The Fugitive Slave Act as a factor in lingering Black angst with law enforcers
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President Abe Lincoln authorized the executions of Dakota warriors in 1862
As the United States Civil War raged for a second year in 1862, in Minnesota, a separate struggle between the…
And the Confederate statues came tumbling down
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