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High school students near our nation’s capital are doing their part to preserve the history of the country.

Students at McKinley Tech High School were learning about the people buried at Mount Zion and Female Union Band Society Cemetery located in Georgetown, WRC reported.

They were taught about the cemetery itself and its role in the underground railroad. Runaway slaves would hide in a burial crypt on the sacred ground.

Source: Teens help clean up historic African-American cemetery, learn its history | WFTV

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The rappers, along with other investors, helped raise over $22 million for the app. Earlier this year, 21 Savage visited the Ellen Show to announce his charity, a campaign that would help teach people financial literacy. He’s not the only rap figure with hopes that people learn better money manageme…

Source: Nas & Will Smith Invest In App That Will Help Teens Learn Financial Literacy

On Dec. 4, 1969, law enforcement officers raided a home at 2337 Monroe St. in Chicago. First they killed Mark Clark, who sat by the door with a shotgun. Then they trained their gunfire on the south bedroom and opened fire. When the cops stopped firing, they pulled the 21-year-old chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party out of the bullet-riddled room. After the officers noticed that he was still alive, they pumped two more bullets, at point-blank range, into the center of Fred Hampton’s forehead.

Source: The Caucasian Panthers: Meet the Rednecks Armed, Ready and ’Bout That Anti-Racist Life

Source: Four St. Louis police officers charged with beating undercover colleague – Washington Times

An Oklahoma lawyer details the attack by hundreds of whites on the thriving black neighborhood where hundreds died 95 years ago

Source: A Long-Lost Manuscript Contains a Searing Eyewitness Account of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 | At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian