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Historic Virginia Key Beach Park Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start to summer, and the three-day weekend is the perfect time to plan a getaway to the beach. Historically, though, it hasn’t always been easy for Black Americans to gather at the beach. Because of segregation and Jim Crow laws, Black residents were shut […]
The US government recorded the second-highest monthly budget surplus in US history of $258.4 billion surplus in April 2025, just behind April 2022’s $308.2 billion surplus, as per a report.Key Drivers of the SurplusThe first monthly surplus of fiscal year 2025 (which began in October 2024) was driven by an influx of tax payments, according […]
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are diving Thursday and surrendering a chunk of their historic gains from the day before as President Donald Trump’s trade war continues to confuse and threaten the economy, even if its . . .
Cramer is also known for making bold market predictions, including fairly accurate forecasts during the dot-com bust and the global recession of 2007. Photo : AP On Saturday, American TV personality and market commentator Jim Cramer warned during CNBC’s Mad Money that the financial markets of the world may suffer its worst single-day crash since […]
Image/Still from the film, The Green Book Project/Candace Taylor The “Green Book”, also known as the Negro Motorist Green Book and the Negro Travelers’ Green Book, was an annual travel guide published from 1936 to 1964 by Victor H. Green. It was intended to provide Black travelers with lodging, dining, and other information necessary to […]
Portrait of Dr. Carter G. Woodson, ca. 1915 Scurlock Studio RecordsArchives CenterNMAH, Smithsonian Institution His Early Life and Quest for Knowledge Born on December 19, 1875 in New Canton, Virginia, Carter Godwin Woodson was the fourth of nine children born to parents who had been enslaved. As an African American boy growing up in central […]
Black women serving in Senate together reflect on historic first and making an impact PBS NewsHour Source link
Wallace, Louisiana AP — A Louisiana landscape of centuries-old sugar cane plantations and enduring Afro-Creole culture along the Mississippi River had been eligible for receiving rare federal protection following a multi-year review by the National Park Service. But this . . .
National Park Service Withdraws Black Community in Louisiana From Historic Landmark Consideration U.S. News & World Report Source link
Historical Overview Prior to the modern African American Civil Rights movement, Black women were already active participants in the struggle for social justice in the United States. Organizing through churches and eventually through the creation of Black women’s clubs, a movement which began in earnest toward the end of the nineteenth century, there is a […]