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The former home of Emmett and Mamie Till is pictured in the West Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago on Aug. 26, 2020. It is one of more than two dozen historically significant sites that will share in $3 million grant money from a preservation organization.

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Emmett Till's Chicago home will get money designated for preserving Black history

12:09pm July 19, 2022

by The Associated Press

A preservation organization said the home will get a share of $3 million in grants being distributed to 33 sites and organizations nationwide that are important pieces of African American history.

Statue of Denmark Vesey at Hampton Park in Charleston, S.C. Formerly enslaved, Vesey bought his freedom with money he was allowed to earn and winnings from a lottery ticket, and he planned an insurrection to kill slaveholders and free Black people on July

Denmark Vesey is honored. His slave revolt was thwarted and he was executed.

11:07am July 19, 2022

by Victoria Hansen

Denmark Vesey's planned slave rebellion was meant to be extensive.

New book details the wealth and power of the former richest man in America

5:12pm July 18, 2022

by Susan Stamberg

J. Paul Getty was America's richest man in his day, turning oil into billions of dollars. A new biography — Growing Up Getty — reveals Getty's wealth and power.

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Key buildings the first Black Marines used will be restored thanks to a new project

4:41pm July 18, 2022

by Jay Price

Key buildings at a 1940s-era segregated Marine base in North Carolina are being restored. The structures at Montford Point, which were used by the first Black Marines, trained roughly 20,000 men.

The view from Clingmans Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The mountain is the tallest peak in the park and sits on the Tennessee-North Carolina border. It's sacred to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, who hope to see the name of the mou

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Cherokee tribe supports renaming Clingmans Dome in Smoky Mountains National Park

4:50pm July 17, 2022

by Dustin Jones

The Cherokee Indians referred to the mountain as Kuwahi for hundreds of years, long before it was dubbed Clingmans Dome in 1859.

Jim Thorpe, the famed American athlete and U.S. Olympic great runs during a Junior Olympics event in Chicago on June 6, 1948. Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon.

Sports

Jim Thorpe is reinstated as the sole winner of two events in the 1912 Olympics

2:29pm July 15, 2022

by The Associated Press

The legendary athlete is declared the sole winner of the Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm — nearly 110 years after being stripped of those gold medals for violations of amateurism rules.

The U.S. student population is more diverse, but schools are still highly segregated

9:21am July 14, 2022

A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office finds that public schools remain highly segregated along racial, ethnic and socioeconomic lines. One reason: school district secession.

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A statue honoring Mary McLeod Bethune is unveiled at the U.S. capitol

5:14am July 14, 2022

by Danielle Prieur

Educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune makes history as the first Black person to have a state-commissioned statue in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall, replacing a confederate statue.

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Why the family of Emmett Till want authorities to serve a 67-year-old arrest warrant

5:01pm July 13, 2022

The family of Emmett Till want authorities to serve a 1955 arrest warrant to the white woman they say is responsible for his murder and kidnapping.

The Russian Black Sea naval headquarters at Sevastopol, Crimea, in 2008. In the background on the right is a Russian destroyer. The Russian tall ship Padalla (with white sails) is in the center. In the foreground is the Monument to Scuttled Ships, marking

World News

How Russia's current war in Ukraine echoes its Crimean War of the 1850s

8:32am July 13, 2022

by Greg Myre

Russia had a more powerful army. It didn't think the West would intervene. The invasion was poorly planned. We're not talking about Russia's current war, but about Russia's Crimean War in the 1850s.

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