Tag: Emancipation Proclamation
Black History’s Unsung Hero of the Civil War
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
Educated and ambitious are terms most historians use to describe Christian Abraham Fleetwood, born free and...
Change Is a Movement and a Process
By Assemblymember Dr. Shirley Weber, Chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus
One thing is clear this Juneteenth: change cannot wait. Today, not only...
Black history interwoven with suffrage centennial
“We knew what family meant to her,” said Ernestine (Tina) Martin Wyatt great-great-great-grandniece of Tubman, in a Focus features interview when the movie, “Harriet”...
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