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A Black storyteller chronicles the history of slavery and freedom A Black storyteller chronicles the history of slavery and freedom March 6, 2021 by Fred Jordan, African American Chamber of Commerce By definition, a historian is an expert or student of history. I am not an expert or a student, but one whose family has been intimately involved in the Black history of this country and I was raised, lived, studied and worked in those areas most prominent in Black history: Washington, D.C., Southern Maryland and Boston.  Whether through family history or personal stories of direct descendants o...

Reconstruction: A Timeline of the Post-Civil War Era For a 14-year period, the U.S. government took steps to try and integrate the nation's newly freed Black population into society. Author: Recently freed African Americans receive rations. Credit: Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG/Getty Images For a 14-year period, the U.S. government took steps to try and integrate the nation's newly freed Black population into society. Between 1863 and 1877, the U.S. government undertook the task of integrating nearly four million formerly enslaved people into society after the Civil War bitterly divided the ...

Major Sam P. Bakshas woke up that morning with the secrets in his head. Bakshas was one of the men flying B-29 Superfortress bombers from three Pacific islands—Guam, Saipan, and Tinian. A writer dubbed these men “the thousand kids.” There were actually several thousand, and they were giving heart and soul to bombing the Japanese home islands—what they called “the Empire”—with no success. They were dropping bombs from high altitude and not hitting much. The air campaign against Japan was failing. This article first appeared earlier and is being reposted due to reader interest. Ba...

Major Sam P. Bakshas woke up that morning with the secrets in his head. Bakshas was one of the men flying B-29 Superfortress bombers from three Pacific islands—Guam, Saipan, and Tinian. A writer dubbed these men “the thousand kids.” There were actually several thousand, and they were giving heart and soul to bombing the Japanese home islands—what they called “the Empire”—with no success. They were dropping bombs from high altitude and not hitting much. The air campaign against Japan was failing. Bakshas believed the situation could be turned around. Bakshas was 34. He was older ...

Can Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock Make History? The two candidates hope to be Georgia’s first Jewish senator and Black senator, respectively—a reckoning that has been decades in the making. Photographs by JESSE PRATT LÓPEZ for The New Republic Jon Ossoff arrives in Reverend Raphael Warnock's campaign bus at a rally in Conyers, Georgia, in early December. If you speak with people who have long known Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff—the Democratic candidates hoping to flip Georgia’s two U.S. Senate seats in tightly contested runoff elections on January 5—you will hear them ...