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CINCINNATI — The books are bound together with string. And before Louise Stevenson even gets them off the shelf, she puts on white gloves. The covers fell off years ago. “This is a very sacred and secure place,” Stevenson said. At Union Baptist Church, in a room most people aren’t allowed to visit, she shows […]
A large puddle of water and thickets of weeds cover a vacant lot in Bethesda, Maryland. A towering apartment complex overshadows the cracked asphalt, but Marsha Coleman-Adebayo is most concerned about what – and who – lies beneath. The nearly two-acre site in the Washington DC suburb covers the historic Moses Macedonia African Cemetery and […]
The Raleigh community is honoring Black soldiers who fought in the Civil War on Juneteenth. A memorial tribute with a wreath laying ceremony was held at the Raleigh National Cemetery on Thursday, June 19. The U.S. Colored Troops were a regiment of mostly Black soldiers who fought for the Union during the Civil War. More […]
What’s the worst thing that you could do at a carnival? Whatever your answer was, what we’ve got to tell you is worse. A Trinidadian influencer from America admitted in a now-deleted TikTok video that she “literally had to poop on someone’s grave.” Now before you go off, like the whole of Black Twitter did, […]
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – President Trump’s executive order forcing federal agencies to do away with diversity, equity and inclusion language has now led to the removal of veteran and civil rights leader Medgar Evers’ accomplishments from portions of a U.S. Army website. Evers, a World War II veteran, was assassinated in Jackson in 1963. In […]
Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed from its website information and educational materials about the history of black and female service members. Some of the content unpublished from the site was on veterans who had received the nation’s highest military recognition, the Medal of Honor, according to military news site Task & Purpose. The content removal […]
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Materials on the Arlington National Cemetery website highlighting the graves of Black and female service members have vanished as the Trump administration purges government websites of references to diversity and inclusion. Among the obscured pages are cemetery guides focused on Black soldiers, women’s military service and Civil War veterans. Some of the materials were still […]
Arlington National Cemetery is the most venerated final resting ground in the nation, overseen by silent soldiers in immaculate uniforms with ramrod-straight discipline. Across its hundreds of acres in Virginia, they watch over 400,000 graves of U.S. service members dating back to the Civil War, including two presidents, and more than 400 Medal of Honor […]