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Supreme Court Dismisses Preservation Group Challenge Regarding White House Ballroom Construction

The US Supreme Court dismissed a legal challenge against President Trump's White House ballroom project, allowing construction to continue despite criticism and concerns over its legality.

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Chief Justice John Roberts applauded for his dissent on Trump ballroom decision

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Supreme Court lets Trump's White House ballroom construction continue

The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to continue White House ballroom construction. This ruling blocks a lower court order halting above-ground development. A historic preservation group sued to stop the project last year. The court cited national security and legal standing for its decision.

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Photographer Cecil Williams' vision gives South Carolina its only civil rights museum

Cecil Williams spent decades photographing South Carolina's civil rights history

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For Emmett Till's family, national monument proclamation cements his inclusion in the American story

President Joe Biden is expected to sign a proclamation on Tuesday that establishes a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago whose abduction, torture and killing in Mississippi in 1955 helped propel the civil rights movement

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Juneteenth draws attention to sites linked to enslavement after decades of neglect.

Hundreds of historic sites from Massachusetts to Texas offer windows into enslaved people's lives.

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$6m raised to preserve Nina Simone's childhood home

NEW YORK: An art auction and New York gala have raised nearly US$6 million to preserve and restore the childhood home of soul music legend and civil rights activist Nina Simone, organisers said Tuesday.

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Slavery's ghost haunts cotton gin factory's transformation

A construction project in Alabama demonstrates the difficulty of telling complicated U.S. history in 2022

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Emmett Till’s Chicago home to get preservation funds

CHICAGO — Emmett Till left his mother’s house on Chicago’s South Side in 1955 to visit relatives in Mississippi, where the Black teenager was abducted and brutally slain for reportedly whistling at a white woman.

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Emmett Till’s house, Black sites to get landmarks funds

The house will receive a share of $3 million in grants being distributed to 33 sites and organizations nationwide that are important pieces of African American history.

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

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.

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Emmett Till's house, Black sites to get preservation funds

Emmett Till's Chicago home is one of more than two dozen historically significant sites that will share $3 million in grant money from a preservation organization

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Fund to preserve, assist Black churches gets $20M donation

A new effort to preserve historic Black churches in the United States has received a $20 million donation that will go to help congregations

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