Trump’s war on DEI is really a war on civil rights
Trump's economic agenda, such that he has one, has been subordinated to his broad — and radical — racial agenda.
Opinion: Trump’s war on DEI is really a war on civil rights
To a certain set of well-meaning cultural liberals, DEI refers mainly to human resources mandates and ineffectual diversity ...
From the Statesman archives: Railroad, freedom colonies changed Austin after Civil War
The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...
Bill Introduced To Honor 200,000 Black Union Soldiers With Gold Medal
There's a new effort to award the Congressional Gold Medal to 200,000 African Americans who served in the Union Army during ...
The Black church’s role in Civil Rights and social justice continues to grow
The Black church has long played a significant role in supporting faith and the fight for Civil Rights in America, with its ...
BHM: Changes to Forsyth County since the Civil War
Not long after the Civil War, hundreds of Black families lived and thrived in Forsyth County, owning their own land and creating wealth. But in 1912, that development came to a halt after a white ...
The Washington Informer3d
Bill to Honor Civil War’s Black Soldiers Reintroduced, Coinciding with Black History Month
The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought to ...
Long before Jackie Robinson, Black jockeys dominated and changed horse racing
In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...
‘Revolutionary’: Projects uncover Kentucky’s Black history, one digital document at a time
More and more projects across Kentucky are uncovering Black history through historical documents, then putting them online ...
The Root1d
13 Myths And Truths About The Civil Rights Movement
In this digital age of disinformation, it’s easy for simple facts about the Civil Rights Movement to get misconstrued. During ...
YES! Weekly3d
Educating Black People after the Civil War
During Black History Month, it is important to look at how far the education system for Black people has come. When slavery ...
Trump’s 2017 tax cuts expire soon − study shows they made income inequality worse and especially hurt Black Americans
Going without insurance hurt all low-income Americans. But studies suggest the drop in Black Americans’ coverage under Trump’s plan outpaced that of white Americans. The rate of uninsured Black ...