Matewan, West Virginia. May 19, 1920. Police Chief Sid Hatfield sits in the town square. He's declined bribes and payoffs to help protect the coal miners of Matewan but the Baldwin Felts detective ...

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Comedian Chris Klemens posited in a recent TikTok that the United States is already amidst a second civil war, albeit one that looks drastically different than past battles. The comedian ...

In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts, took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman ...

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Carter Woodson was a tireless promoter of Black culture who planted seeds for what became Black History Month a century ago ...

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