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Rumor Says Black People Couldn't Buy Vanilla Ice Cream Under Jim Crow. Here's the Truth
Snopes via Yahoo Canada News· 4 weeks agoBettmann/Getty Images A viral claim has made its way from literary and oral retellings to the...
America is again stuck in darkness. Queer people of color have always known the way out
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 1 month ago(Roche Cruchon / For The Times) When I was 33 years old, I realized I was a coward. It came all at...
Sexism almost sidelined Black women at 1963 March on Washington. How they fought back.
USA TODAY via Yahoo Canada News· 11 months agoWASHINGTON − As the preliminary program for the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom came...
Bonded through atrocity, men set out to correct record of Louisiana's Colfax Massacre
USA TODAY via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoCOLFAX, La. – The shiny new black marble monument dedicated to the victims of the Colfax Massacre...
Sacramento man, 97, is one of about 200 living members of the first Black Marines
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoRichard Davis keeps his replica Congressional Gold Medal in a glass case that his wife had specially...
A tribute to mom: Why playing North Carolina Central matters to UCLA's Martin Jarmond
LA Times via Yahoo Canada Sports· 10 months agoUCLA athletic director Martin Jarmond's late mother attended North Carolina Central, making...
Some 75 years after Satchel Paige debut, salute to ‘Black Aces’ asks what might’ve been
Kansas City Star via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoSeventy-five years ago, Satchel Paige became the oldest rookie in MLB history and helped Cleveland...
AP Was There: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963 draws hundreds of thousands
Associated Press via Yahoo Canada News· 10 months agoEDITOR’S NOTE — On Aug. 28, 1963, AP reporter Raymond J. Crowley went to the National Mall and...
Trump Keeps Trying To Court Black Voters. But Who’s Actually Buying This S**t?
HuffPost via Yahoo Canada News· 3 months agoMembers of Blacks for Trump, led by Maurice Symonette (center), march at the Miami Federal...
Martin Luther King Day 2023: Activist’s most inspiring quotes
Evening Standard via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoIt’s Martin Luther King Day, a day that celebrates the life and legacy of a man who brought hope and...