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Learn about the many ways diplomat, activist, and 2023 American Women Quarters honoree Eleanor Roosevelt made American history through ... to fly with an African American pilot had great symbolic ...
At a time when it is under scrutiny from the White House, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is without its director, who stepped down last month.
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed a bill Tuesday that would allow African American history courses to count toward graduation requirements. The bill would have allowed students ...
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has vetoed a bill that would have allowed African American history courses to count toward high school graduation requirements. The measure, which was introduced in ...
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A bill that could have made African American history count as a required social studies credit in Virginia high schools was vetoed last month by Governor Glenn Youngkin.
Glenn Youngkin recently took his veto pen to a bill that would've allowed students a choice to substitute World History 1 or World Geography with African American History or Advanced Placement ...
In the eight years since it opened on the National Mall, the National Museum of African American History and Culture has become one of the glittering jewels of the Smithsonian Institution.
Although Memorial Day now commemorates those who died in all wars, it began when Black people commemorated the Civil War in ...
Dear editor at Baltimore AFRO, On March 27, the executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” was signed, targeting the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African ...
AFRICAN AMERICANS. Cleveland's African American community is almost as old as the city itself. GEORGE PEAKE, the first Black settler, arrived in 1809 and by 1860 there were 799 Black people living in ...
BEACHWOOD, Ohio (WOIO) - Northeast Ohio community members are not only condemning the man police said burned 100 Beachwood Public Library books on Jewish history, African American history ...