Public events started in 1975, but the NAACP marked it a decade earlier Pacoima was the first place the city celebrated Juneteenth in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles…
Read more When Was the First Juneteenth Celebration in Los Angeles? – LAmagNA Today, is Juneteenth, the federal holiday commemorating the abolition of slavery – the greatest triumph of freedom in American history. In this post, I compile some links…
Read more Writings on Juneteenth and its Significance for American LibertyA federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore signs related to topics such as climate change, slavery and Indigenous and LGBTQ+ history that were removed under…
Read more Judge orders Trump administration to restore national park signage on climate change, slaveryMayor Cherelle Parker reacted to the city’s recent legal win against the federal government in a video Tuesday, issuing a rare, albeit indirect, critique of the Trump administration.…
Read more Parker vows, ‘We will not allow anyone to erase our history,’ following President’s House lawsuit rulingColorado Department of Corrections officials forced inmates to work prison jobs through coercion that ultimately amounted to involuntary servitude, a Denver judge ruled Friday. The state’s prisons unconstitutionally…
Read more Coerced Colorado prison labor amounts to involuntary servitude, judge rulesDuring the tumultuous period that preceded the Civil War, the United States passed a series of bills that came to be collectively known as the Compromise of 1850.…
Read more What ICE Should Have Learned from the Fugitive Slave ActIn one version of U.S. history, California is a place where slavery was prohibited from the founding, in the 1849 state constitution, and where that ban was reaffirmed…
Read more Contributor: California’s place in enslaved people’s struggle for freedomKwanzaa has become a nationally recognized celebration of African culture and community in the United States since its founding in 1966, and also is celebrated in countries with…
Read more A beginner’s guide to KwanzaaThe Maryland House voted on Tuesday to override a veto imposed by Democratic Governor Wes Moore and to set up a commission to consider reparations for slavery. Why…
Read more Maryland considering slavery reparations: What to knowOn this day in 1799, A. March informed readers that he had “Elegant Prints of the Washington Family.” Included were his Excellency George Washington, Lady Mary Washington, her…
Read more History Happenings: Oct. 18, 2025Bettina Aptheker was a 20-year-old sophomore at UC Berkeley when she climbed on top of a police car, barefoot so she wouldn’t damage it, and helped start the…
Read more Commentary: McCarthyism in a MAGA hat? Trump’s campus deal sounds familiar to herThe former “Saturday Night Live” star loudly and hilariously skewered the president for downplaying the slave trade. Source link
Read more ‘You Bitch!’ Leslie Jones Schools Donald Trump On SlaveryAmerican stand-up comedian Tim Dillon says he has been dropped from the bill of Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Comedy Festival because of remarks he made about the country’s alleged…
Read more U.S. comic Tim Dillon says Saudi Arabia fired him from comedy festival over jokes about slaveryProfessor Kevin Waite had just finished a seminar on the run-up to the American Civil War on Friday morning when a student cautiously raised her hand. “Can I…
Read more From Charlie Kirk to Supreme Court backlash, Civil War historians see modern parallelsWASHINGTON — Just days after taking over Washington, D.C., law enforcement, President Donald Trump criticized one of the district’s preeminent tourist attractions: the Smithsonian Institution. The Smithsonian, founded…
Read more Trump is wrong: Smithsonian does feature success, brightnessWASHINGTON (AP) — Racist text messages invoking slavery raised alarm across the country this week after they were sent to Black men, women and students, including middle schoolers,…
Read more Racist Text Messages Referencing Slavery Raise Alarms In Multiple States And Prompt Investigations – KXLDonald Trump appeared on Fox News this morning, where, during a characteristically bizarre interview, he suggested Abraham Lincoln could have avoided the Civil War by cutting a deal…
Read more Trump Suggests Abraham Lincoln Should’ve Let the South Keep a Little SlaverySACRAMENTO, Calif. — California and Nevada voters will decide in November whether to ban forced prison labor by removing language from their state constitutions rooted in the legacy…
Read more Voters consider ban on forced labor aimed at protecting prisonersGov. Gavin Newsom signed a formal apology for California’s role in slavery and legacy of racism against Black people as part of a series of reparations bills he…
Read more Newsom signs formal apology for California’s role in slaveryNew York City lawmakers approved legislation Thursday to study the city’s significant role in slavery and consider reparations to descendants of enslaved people. If signed into law, the…
Read more NYC bills propose sign marking Wall Street as first slave market, along with reparations study
