Race and Civil Rights
June 19, 2009 -
As we celebrate Juneteenth today, here's a short piece explaining the holiday that we ran on Facing South last year. Enjoy! Today is Juneteenth,a holiday marking the day that, in 1865, slaves in Texas were finallytold they were free -- two months and 10 days after Robert E. Leesurrendered to Ullyses S. Grant at Appomattox.The slave mastershad never bothered to tell them that slavery was officially over in1863; it took Union General Gordon Granger riding into Galveston with
June 16, 2009 -
By Kent Paterson, Frontera NorteSur
June 16, 2009 -
A coalition of immigrant and civil rights groups held a vigil in front of the Atlanta headquarters of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency last week to mark the three-month anniversary of Roberto Martinez Medina's de
June 11, 2009 -
At today's memorial for John Hope Franklin at Duke University, playwright Emily Mann -- daughter of historian Arthur Mann, a close friend of Franklin's -- related one of many illuminating personal stories about the pioneering historian and scholar.
June 11, 2009 -
Raleigh TV station WRAL is streaming live coverage of the memorial service for John Hope Franklin, the pioneering historian and scholar who passed on March 25, 2009.