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Members of an employees union are demanding an apology from a Georgia legislator after they discovered white…
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Bill Peduto was inaugurated as mayor of Pittsburgh on Wednesday, officially beginning his second term in office.
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Two South Carolina politicians have proposed a commission to erect a monument honoring the legacy of black soldiers…
A reader wants to know if and how the black and white branches of his family connected during slavery.
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Let’s be clear: Nobody likes being told what to do. I hate it when my mortgage company sends me an email letting me…
The Civil War has long been over, but the long, slow, idiotic march of white nonsense presses on.
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