A US Congressman, his enslaved half-brothers and the history of an Austin log farmstead
Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...
Roy S. Johnson: Hey, white people, it’s not too late to celebrate Black History Month with us
Feb. 27 — In 1869, John Willis Menard rose from his seat in the chamber of the U.S. Congress to defend his status as the ...
Gary Franks: Black history and the Holocaust
In the early 1960s, when I was a little boy, the Ku Klux Klan attacked my family by burning a cross in front of our house, ...
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Andrew Young Talks Trump’s Latest Policies: ‘I Don’t Know What Kind Of Games They’re Playing’
In 1972, Young became the first Black Congressman from Georgia since Reconstruction. He was also the first Black man to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and Mayor of Atlanta from ...
Alabama Rep. calls for Rosa Parks holiday to counter Trump’s ‘attack’ on Black history
Rep. Terri Sewell today described her proposed holiday as counter measure to what she called an attack on diversity and Black history by President Donald Trump’s administration.
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Black History Month: Honoring Congressman George Henry White
BLADEN COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) -George Henry White was one of the first black men elected to Congress in North Carolina. He was born a slave in Rosindale, Bladen County in 1852. White joined the North ...
Alabama redistricting trial could reshape congressional map
The battle over Alabama's congressional map is set to continue as a key redistricting trial, Caster v. Allen, begins Monday.