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It is sad, depressing and enraging to watch as the Senate refuses to defend voting rights, largely those of Black and brown people. This rue-the-day moment is also a déjà vu moment. As a country ...
Federal troops had killed between 150 and 300 people in southwestern South Dakota in an incident now known as the Massacre at Wounded Knee.
The temporary suspension of the USDA's 1890 Scholars Program, which benefits HBCUs and students pursing agriculture, has left many concerned.
Black Lawmakers Blast USDA For Cancelling HBCU Scholarship Via Trump’s Anti-DEI Executive Order 'This program is a correction to a long history of racial discrimination within the land-grant ...
WASHINGTON -- A federal scholarship aimed at boosting students from underserved and rural areas attending historically Black colleges and universities has been put on hold. The U.S. Department of ...
The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) is calling on President Trump to reinstate an education program designed to support students from rural and underserved communities pursuing degrees in agricult… ...
The American dance craze known as 'the cakewalk' began as a form of resistance by enslaved Black people — a showy promenade that concealed a mockery of slave owners. Now, modern devotees are ...
Black History Month: Reading baseball great Eddie Day broke game’s color barrier in the 1890s Day is considered one of the best players to have come out of Reading.
On This Day in 1890, the U.S. Army Killed Nearly 300 Lakota People in the Wounded Knee Massacre The mass murder made sensational news at the time, but getting to the heart of the matter took a ...