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U.S. Mint Announces Quarters Honoring Maya Angelou, Sally Ride
(San Diego, CA, April 13, 2021) The United States Mint announced the names of the first two women to be honored on coins issued under the American Women Quarters Program. Famed write
Insurrectionist who waved Confederate flag in Capitol allowed to take family road trip before trial
Aldous Pennyfarthing and Daily Kos May 16, 2021 The dude who hosted what may be the most infuriating photo op during the events of Jan. 6—the brandishing of a flag
Erased
Abdi Latif Dahir writes in the NY Times, ” A young climate activist, Vanessa Nakate, had just sat down for lunch at the gathering of the global elite in Davos, Switzerland, in January last y
Katharine Hepburn’s brownies
Tori Avey | February 22, 2013 2 squares (2 oz.) unsweetened baker’s chocolate 1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1/4 cup flour 1 teaspoon vanilla Pinch of salt 1 cup roughl
Five Black Owned Wineries To Support Now (actually seven or more!)
Robin and Andréa McBride, owners of California’s McBride Sisters winery, are two Black sisters who are doing just that. The winery, founded in the early 2000s, is now one of the largest Black-ow
Apple Pie Recipes for Apple Pie Day (May 13)
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Some Authors to Read this Summer
Do you like mysteries? Here are some Black female mystery writers you might find interesting. Alyssa Cole Megan Giddings Rachel Howzell Hall Eleanor Taylor Bland Paula L Woods Barbara Neely Grace F
Man charged with wife’s murder illegally cast her ballot for Trump, officials say: ‘I just thought, give him another vote’
By Hannah Knowles and Paulina Villegas May 15, 2021 at 9:38 p.m. EDT The county clerk immediately knew something strange was going on last fall. A mail ballot had arrived from Suzanne Morphew
How New Efforts Are Recovering the Stories of People Who Were Deleted From History
BY RACHEL LANCE UPDATED: APRIL 7, 2020 3:42 PM EDT | ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: APRIL 7, 2020 12:30 PM EDT Recently, a doctoral student at Duke University discovered that the oldest
Traitors Celebrated?
My question is why can southern states, who lost the Civil War, get away with having holidays and memorials to those who rebelled against the USA? Clint Smith, writing for The Atlantic, s
What This Cruel War Was Over
TA-NEHISI COATES JUNE 22, 2015 The Confederate flag is directly tied to the Confederate cause, and the Confederate cause was white supremacy. This claim is not the result of revisionism. It do
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month
May marks the start of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month – during a time when anti-Asian hate crimes continue to rise across the country. Our guide breaks down the long history
‘Two justice systems’: Anger as white Trump supporter who used dead mother’s vote walks free while Black woman faces jail for voting error
Graig Graziosi 5/4/21 A white man who pretended to be his dead mother in order to cast an extra vote for Donald Trump was sentenced to five years of probation after being found guilty. A Black
How the Myth of a Liberal North Erases a Long History of White Violence
By Christy Clark-Pujara and Anna-Lisa Cox SMITHSONIANMAG.COM AUGUST 27, 2020 In 1834 there were even more riots against African Americans, most notably in New Haven, Connecticut, Philadelphia, and