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How Martin Luther King Jr. Day became a federal holiday
Business Insider via Yahoo Canada News· 6 months agoIt took decades for all 50 states to observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day.Getty Images A bill...
A country's monuments tell its stories. A $500M donation could help diversify US history.
USA TODAY via Yahoo Canada News· 7 months agoIn Chicago and in Tallahatchie, Mississippi, a national monument honoring Emmett Till and Mamie...
Tennessee GOP is willing to reject millions in funding, if it avoids complying with federal strings
Associated Press via Yahoo Canada News· 8 months agoTennessee Republican leaders are escalating their calls to reject millions of federal dollars rather...
Right-Wing Culture Warriors Are Oblivious to the Coming Backlash
The Daily Beast via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoPhoto Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/ReutersA school district in Utah pulled...
The First Amendment Is the Greatest Defense for the Powerless and Marginalized
The Daily Beast via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoIllustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastThe prominent feminist legal scholar Catharine...
Tennessee Silencing Black Politicians Is Not New for the South
The Daily Beast via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoPhoto Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Reuters/Library of CongressGet more news and...
From separate hotels to cemeteries, striking historical photos show what segregation looked like in...
INSIDER via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoAfrican American men wearing tuxedos carry a coffin and a "Here Lies Jim Crow" sign down the middle...
All About Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter's Children and Grandchildren
People via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoFormer President Jimmy Carter and late wife Rosalynn Carter's large family includes four children...
Cops Shot My Grandfather 90 Years Ago. Little Has Changed.
The Daily Beast via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoPhoto Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Wikimedia Commons, Reuters, and Getty ImagesLike...