A US Congressman, his enslaved half-brothers and the history of an Austin log farmstead
Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...
Racism Is Common In Hawaiʻi Schools — And Often Goes Unaddressed
Nearly half of white high school students and more than half of Black students in the state said they'd experienced racism in ...
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1. Americans’ views on COVID-19 risk and the country’s response to health emergencies
Eileen Yam and Giancarlo Pasquini contributed to this chapter. Five years after the pandemic began, Americans largely see ...
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Black People Who Were Adopted By White Parents Are Explaining The Trauma Of Adoption, And It's A Necessary Read
"It’s rough growing up when people keep telling you 'you don’t act Black' yet you don’t look white. It could be awkward going ...
The families of L.A. wildfire victims confront the failures that prevented escape
One month after the devastation, the public and California’s government are facing tough questions about their approach to ...
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5 Years Later: America Looks Back at the Impact of COVID-19
Nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults (72%) say the COVID-19 pandemic did more to drive the country apart than to bring it ...
The Harlem Globetrotters: 99 years of basketball, variety and ‘Showtime’
The team's stated goal is to “spread goodwill worldwide," and it has routinely contributed to basketball’s growth and society’s betterment.
Gary Franks: Black history and the Holocaust
In the early 1960s, when I was a little boy, the Ku Klux Klan attacked my family by burning a cross in front of our house, ...
Black teens are prosecuted as adults in N.J. at ‘disturbing’ rate, report finds
New Jersey has an "abusive and arbitrary" system that allows prosecutors to send children and teens to adult court, a new ...
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One way to retain more Black teachers in NYC schools? Black principals, new research finds.
Working at a school with a Black principal reduced turnover by about 14% for Black teachers over a nine year period, NYU ...
The View jokes that Trump will ‘ban Black people’ from Super Bowl halftime after Kendrick Lamar set
Donald Trump is gonna sign an executive order banning Black people from halftime,’ The View’s Ana Navarro said on Monday.
Report details home mortgage lending disparities in Hamilton County, possible solutions
A new report is looking into solutions to expanding lending to Black and low-income homeowners after a study found Black households are underrepresented in the mortgage lending process.