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JUNETEENTH  – June 19, 1865
The Day African-Americans Achieved Freedom from Slavery
The Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Lincoln declared on January 1, 1863 that all slaves were freed in states that were in rebellion. However, the promise of the Proclamation was not fulfilled until the Union Armies defeated the Confederate forces throughout the South in the spring of 1865, and, finally, until Major General Gordon Granger landed in Galveston, Texas on June 19th with nearly 2,000 Union soldiers and the last stronghold of slavery fell and the last 250,000 slaves held in Texas were freed. The Civil War won emancipation for 4 million African-Americans. Celebrate Juneteenth.
HAPPY JUNETEENTH!
 

In response to a string of recent break-ins, the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan has given a local Pennsylvania chapter the go-ahead to form a neighborhood watch […]

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THE DREAMS OF HARRIET TUBMAN/ Rejected Sketch for City of Baltimore/ by Mike Alewitz/ 2000

The Dreams of Harriet Tubman

AgitProp News:  6.17.00

Special Issue: Harriet Tubman: Armed and […]

Everyone deserves a great public education, but better schools alone can’t fight inequality.
 

It’s common in policy circles to claim that improving the quality of education in inner cities and […]

George E. Curry
Los Angeles Wave
April 6, 2014

WASHINGTON – (NNPA) – The wealth gap between African-Americans and whites has expanded in recent years and is not likely to narrow without significant […]

Childhood Lessons 
In the Terrible Power of the Government: 
You Will Always Live in Fear. 
You Will Never Challenge the Miniscule Elite 
Who Rule Over Us All.

Torturing Children at School
By THE […]

NEW YORK — The nation’s most segregated schools aren’t in the deep south — they’re in New York, according to a report released Tuesday by the University of California, Los Angeles’ Civil Rights Project.

That […]

Public school students of color get more punishment and less access to veteran teachers than their white peers, according to surveys released Friday by the U.S. Education Department that include data from […]

The racial disparities in American education, from access to high-level classes and experienced teachers to discipline, were highlighted in a report released Friday by the Education Department’s civil rights […]

What do Cadillac-driving “welfare queens,” a “food stamp president” and the “lazy, dependent and entitled” 47 percent tell us about post-racial America? They’re all examples of a […]

Private prisons favor young healthy men–
and with racist drug laws, that means young men of color.
AlterNet / By Aaron Cantú

Young men of color are disproportionately represented within all prisons […]

ACLU report finds troubling racial trends for those locked up under mandatory minimum laws.
By Sarah Lazare, Mint press news

At least 3,278 people in the United States, a majority of them black, are […]

Without visits from recruiters, low-income students never discover college campuses that exist beyond their hometowns.
By Katie Rucke, Mintpress news

During a time when more and more low-income high […]

The irrelevance of black life has been drilled into this country since its infancy, and shall not be extricated through the latest innovations in Negro Finishing School.

I wish I had something more to […]

The Huffington Post  | by Nick Wing

As the nation’s nearly 80-year history of pot prohibition slowly begins to crumble, starting with Colorado’s recent implementation of taxed and legalized recreational […]