This Week In Black History August 21-27, 2024

August 21, 2024

By: Courier Newsroom

What Frederick Douglass learned from an Irish antislavery activist: ‘Agitate, agitate, agitate’

June 21, 2024

By: The Conversation

Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days – and the history of how emancipated people were kept unfree needs to be remembered, too

June 20, 2024

By: The Conversation

US laws created during slavery are still on the books

June 19, 2024

By: The Conversation

6 books that explain the history and meaning of Juneteenth

June 19, 2024

By: The Conversation

Juneteenth offers new ways to teach about slavery, Black perseverance and American history

May 27, 2024

By: The Conversation

Biden honors Black leaders with Presidential Medal of Freedom

May 6, 2024

By: Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent

COURIER EXCLUSIVE REPORT: Juneteenth to occur at Point State Park, but Black Music Festival is canceled

May 1, 2024

By: Rob Taylor Jr. - Courier Staff Writer

PITTSBURGH’S JUNETEENTH GENERATES NEARLY $4.2 MILLION IN ECONOMIC IMPACT

October 6, 2023

By: Rob Taylor Jr. - Courier Staff Writer

Juneteenth, Jim Crow and how the fight of one Black Texas family to make freedom real offers lessons for Texas lawmakers trying to erase history from the classroom

June 19, 2023

By: The Conversation