Tag: race relations

The general of Juneteenth

The Civil War ended in April 1865 and two months later, on June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger of the Union Army issued General Order No. 3 in Galveston, Texas, with Granger saying, “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.”

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BROTHERLY BOOMS: ATMs THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT

The George Floyd protests continue throughout America.. But Philadelphia has experienced something seemingly unique to the city of brotherly love: Exploding ATM machines and rumors of more nefarious, stranger things.

#Phillyexplosions began trending in the region two days ago.. City residents tonight on Twitter seem too tired to even track the number of explosions sounding through the metro area..

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A crowd of North Carolina protesters have toppled a Confederate statue after white supremacist violence in Virginia. Demonstrators in the former slave state attached a rope to Durham’s statue of an unidentified Confederate soldier Monday evening and pulled it down to the ground, where it was spat on and kicked. “People can be mobilized and people are angry and when enough people are angry, we don’t have to look to politicians to sit around in air conditions and do nothing when we can do things ourselves,” protester Takiyah Thompson told WNCN.

A crowd of North Carolina protesters have toppled a Confederate statue after white supremacist violence in Virginia. Demonstrators in the

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