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Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers hailed from Sea Islands. Beaufort park will tell unsung story
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and Battery Creek ...
Black Civil War soldiers to be honored with 7-foot bronze monument
Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia.
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Loudonville museum examines the shifting legacy of Civil War symbols
The Cleo Redd Fisher Museum’s Speaker Series wraps up on Monday, April 21 with a thought-provoking program titled “Statues, ...
Long Island Press2dOpinion
Editorial: Eliminating Confederate symbols use by Levittown fire department
The Levittown fire department and district was one of three on Long Island to recently settle complaints of unlawful ...
How the Union took to the skies in the Civil War
The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...
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Long Island fire departments settle discrimination claims, remove Confederate flags
Long Island fire departments accused of displaying Confederate flags and enforcing discriminatory membership policies agreed ...
Liberation News6dOpinion
Hegseth’s attacks on Black troops evoke long history of anti-racist struggle
The racist agendas of the Trump Administration, in all aspects of American life, are creating sparks that could catch at any ...