Johnson calls for 'new reconstruction era' at breakfast celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.
Mayor Brandon Johnson, Michael Eric Dyson, faith leaders and other speakers celebrated Black history and urged people to ...
Va. lawmakers tackle Confederate bills on day of honor for Black pioneers
Leaders of both parties honored 100 Black lawmakers from the Reconstruction era, then turned to modern battles over ...
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The Myth of Reconstruction
Reconstruction may be one of the most misunderstood ... appearing in a white dress on a float at a U.D.C. celebration with the logo "Protect Us" over it, was a way of saying to the late 19th ...
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Lessons from Reconstruction
The landscape of the 19th century and the Reconstruction Era in particular is a critical period in U.S. history. In fact, sources claim it as the nexus of Black activism ...
Trump’s Inauguration Is Ushering in a New Redemption Era of White Power Politics and Violence
The cartoonish bully apparently intent on destroying civil rights — among countless other hard-won freedoms — will assume ...
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Southern Violence During Reconstruction
We like to believe we are a society of security and progress and improvement. Reconstruction makes us face an era when we were something else. Clarence Walker, Historian: The violence in the South ...
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America, Afghanistan and the Price of Self-Delusion
Sopko has been the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction since 2012 ... must ask how this happened so that the United States can avoid similar results in Ukraine, Gaza, Syria ...