18-06-2022
"What does it mean to be freed?" one child asked a parent. "Were people really that mean?" a mother recalled her children saying. Amid the parades, pageants, carnivals and cookouts for Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the end of slavery in America, many children are asking profound questions about the nation's history of enslaving Black people. Because of its newfound status as a federal holiday, many parents say... Read more
14-06-2022
Corey D. B. Walker, Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities and director of the Program in African American Studies, discusses the history of Juneteenth and the importance of marking the holiday. What is Juneteenth?Juneteenth is part of a rich heritage of emancipation and freedom celebrations by Africans and people of African descent throughout the Americas beginning with celebrations marking the abolition of the Trans-Atlantic slave... Read more
12-06-2022
U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Michael Langley delivers a speech onboard amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5), during the Fleet Week New York reception ceremony in the hangar bay, May 25, 2022. U.S. Navy Photo President Biden has nominated Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Michael Langley to lead U.S. Africa Command, the Pentagon announced on Thursday.Langley is up for a fourth... Read more
12-06-2022
President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, back, help Herman Shaw, 94, a Tuskegee Syphilis Study victim, during a news conference on May 16, 1997. A New York-based philanthropy is apologizing for its role in the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study For almost 40 years starting in the 1930s, as government researchers purposely let hundreds of Black men die of syphilis in Alabama... Read more
10-06-2022
The Jan. 6 committee investigating the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol held its first primetime public hearing on Thursday night — the first of six that lawmakers hope will reveal what the committee has learned over the past 11 months about how the Capitol was breached and about former President Donald Trump’s role in the events that led to the insurrection. Democratic... Read more
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