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ItzYourz411
Feb 29, 20202 min read
Congress Passes Anti-Lynching Law 65 Years After The Murder of Emmett Till
Congress has finally made lynching a federal crime naming the law after 14-year-old, Emmett Till, who was murdered 65 years ago in...
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ItzYourz411
Feb 22, 20203 min read
How Black Veterans Were Locked Out Of The Post War GI Bill’s Benefits
It should have been enough that black men were only 80 years removed from chattel slavery. Reconstruction was thwarted by Jim Crow laws....
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ItzYourz411
Feb 15, 20201 min read
Regal MacArthur Center to offer free screenings of “Harriet” for Black History Month
February marks Black History Month, and to celebrate, MacArthur Center’s Regal movie theater will offer free screenings to a movie about...
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ItzYourz411
May 29, 20174 min read
The Untold Origin of Memorial Day
The African-American history of the federal holiday has been nearly wiped from public memory. Union General John Logan is often credited...
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ItzYourz411
Oct 24, 20166 min read
Maybe White "Pushback" Against the African American History Museum is About Something More
Throwback picture to when we were an all-white family with only one child and to when I wore suits and pearls I shouldn't have been, but...
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ItzYourz411
Oct 11, 20164 min read
The Hill, Easton, MD: Earliest Free African-American Settlement
In Easton, an untold story of free African-Americans is being discovered through bits of glass, shards of pottery and oyster shells....
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ItzYourz411
Oct 7, 20163 min read
10 Astonishing Facts About the Black Men and Women Responsible for America’s Railroad Systems
All Southern Railroads Built in the 1800s Were Built by Enslaved Africans The whole southern network of railroads built in the...
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ItzYourz411
Oct 6, 20163 min read
America’s Private Prison Industry Was Born from the Exploitation of the Slave Trade
Private prisons — those for-profit correctional facilities owned by corporations rather than the government — have their origin in the...
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