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RT @chodger: My team looked at old newspaper articles for over 50 of events like Tulsa and talked to a dozen historians to understand how t…

The latest History Refocused episode: The Kerner Commission released a report on racial inequality that shook America in 1968, but then largely faded into history. We spoke to the only remaining survivor about why https://t.co/mTOklQPkX8

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More than 50 years before George Floyd's death, lawmakers predicted a growing racial divide. Little changed. https://t.co/bPAo7TqH0P https://t.co/akoEZLcGG8

RT @AthenaCNN: Can a formula be racist? See my video piece with @nataliavosipova + Jessi Esparza & a great -- and important -- read by @Ca…

Black or 'Other'? Doctors may be relying on race to make decisions about your health -- the newest episode of our History Refocused series is out, with a look at how medical myths that are hundreds of years old are still embedded in medicine today https://t.co/drVnHHW11c

RT @CatherineCNN: Two big factors are making things worse at the border. But they're not getting much attention https://t.co/bduHJkCcZ9

Before the Covid shutdown, CNN went inside schools to see how "lockdown drills" for school shootings work, up close. High school students, to third graders... watch and read this powerful report https://t.co/kvzYLqyA5l

RT @chodger: In my 18 years of schooling, I barely studied the period between the Civil War and Jim Crow, so to dive in to this story of a…

This is the first piece in our series called "History Refocused," it looks at Colvin's amazing story, but also what you might not know about Rosa Parks and many other women in the civil rights movement https://t.co/37qV97NeYT

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At 15 years old, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat nine months before the now-historic Rosa Parks moment. But like many others, her story was excluded from history. https://t.co/VEYnh060SP https://t.co/Hz9uvxsKZY

RT @donie: A South Carolina mom explains how she went down the QAnon rabbithole through TikTok.... and how she got out. She idolized Trum…

When CNN did a call-out after the election @McKennaEwen found this powerful story about what Biden’s climate policy could mean for one town in Wyoming that has provided much of America’s energy, and he beautifully tells it with @jdsutter https://t.co/n6TTUPxWag

RT @CNN: Amanda Gorman, the nation's first-ever youth poet laureate, called for Americans to "leave behind a country better than the one we…

RT @CNNPolitics: From Reagan's colorful stationary to Obama's lengthy prose, presidents past have long penned letters of encouragement and…

RT @CNN: Joe Biden's inauguration will look different because: ▪︎ President Trump won't attend the ceremony ▪︎ The pandemic has altered ina…

RT @CNN: Pictures of the US Capitol riot tell part of the story of the beliefs of some of those who chose to show up on that day -- from pa…

How these Pro-Trump protestors in DC felt about the rioters who stormed the Capitol today: “As American patriots we had to do what we can to take back this country” - from @vlfleischer @jmoorheadcnn & @donie https://t.co/QSD6ZudMMO

RT @CNNPolitics: The Electoral College process comes to a grand finale as the presidential votes of all 50 states and the District of Colum…

RT @CNNPolitics: Leader McConnell condemns GOP election challenge: "We're debating a step that has never been taken in American history: wh…