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UNCOVERED: Black america | History Defined

What is Juneteenth in the US and how is it celebrated?

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

The Independent UK

Why hasn’t middle America given Paige Bueckers the Caitlin Clark treatment?

The UConn star has embraced Black America rather than being pitted against it. It means she has not been lionized in the same way as a similarly brilliant player

The Guardian - US

"The N.W.A. attitude is we don't give a f**k": how Straight Outta Compton changed hip-hop, and then the world

Released on August 8, 1988, N.W.A.'s explosive debut album Straight Outta Compton remains one of the most powerful protest records ever

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Will Smith is on ‘probation’ with Black Hollywood. But it may not last much longer

LOS ANGELES — The evening that Tyler Perry is calling one of his “most heartbreaking” happened eight months ago. But the memory is still fresh — and hurtful.

Los Angeles Times

Civil rights lawyer Crump sues US over repealed aid to Black farmers

Civil rights lawyer Ben Crump is suing the federal government, saying the congressional repeal of aid to Black farmers is a broken promise.

Roll Call

Chicago Jazz Festival offers music to soothe a shaken city

The music fest arrives at a good time for a city battered by critics.

Chicago Sun-Times

The National Park Service expands its African-American history sites

The National Park Service is trying to include more Black history into the story of America. Some of the proposed sites are painful, others are controversial.

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‘She told Martin Luther King: tell ’em about the dream!’ The eternal life of gospel singer Mahalia Jackson

Fifty years after her death, friends and fans including Al Sharpton assess the legacy of a singer who took gospel mainstream and became ‘as big as Beyoncé’

The Guardian - UK

Civil rights lawyer Crump: investigate Buffalo shooting as domestic terrorism

‘We can’t sugarcoat it,’ leading civil rights attorney says of shooting that killed 10 people

The Guardian - US

Kendrick Lamar: The Heart Part 5 review – a heartstopping call for uplifted humanity

The rapper’s flow is as charged and acute as ever as he lays out a manifesto of radical empathy

The Guardian - UK

Are Black people real "Americans"?

McConnell's "gaffe" was nothing of the kind — it reflected a core belief driving the Republican attack on democracy

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