On a farm in Simpsonville, Kentucky, Jake Bryan starts each morning the same way his father, grandfather and ...

Some 51 Black men who fought with the U.S. Colored Troops in the Civil War have gone more than 50 summers here now without ...

UNITED STATES, — Memorial Day is one of ... roughly two dozen Black American Charlestonians reorganized the graves into orderly rows and constructed a 10-foot-tall white fence around them.

The first Memorial Day ... dozen Black people stepped in to ensure they were remembered. Believe it or not, they exhumed the bodies, laid them in organized rows and built a 10-foot-high white ...

Memorial Day weekend traditionally honors military ... than providing them with respect and protection. White supremacist communities viewed Black military service as a direct threat to ...

One of the earliest known celebrations of Memorial Day can be traced back to formerly enslaved persons and white missionaries ... The Charleston Courier, 3,000 Black schoolchildren carried ...

The initial commemoration of Memorial Day is often disputed ... enslaved African Americans and some white missionaries had a parade where schoolchildren, Black religious leaders and members ...

Although roughly 180,000 Black men served in the Union Army, the holiday in many communities would essentially become “white Memorial Day,” especially after the rise of the Jim Crow South ...

Memorial Day is a holiday designed ... BlacKkKlansman follows a Black cop in the 1970s who decides to infiltrate the KKK simply by putting on a white voice. When he recruits a more seasoned ...

Although 180,000 Black men served in the Union Army, the holiday in many communities would essentially become “white Memorial Day,” especially after the rise of the Jim Crow South, Railton told the AP ...