Good Black News: The Daily Drop

Lori Lakin Hutcherson

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A daily drop of Good Black News offers quick, inspiring facts about people, events, culture, history, organizations or landmarks along with quotes, jokes, games and trivia from goodblacknews.org and the Page-A-Day Calendar for 2022 by Lori Lakin Hutcherson and Workman Publishing. Cover Design by Jeronimo Sochaczewski.

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May 30, 2022

GBN Daily Drop for May 30, 2022: Memorial Day and its African American Origins

Memorial Day, an American national holiday dedicated to the memory of fallen US soldiers, is celebrated on the last Monday of May. Its beginnings however, started on the first day of May in 1865, when by a group of newly liberated Blacks in Charleston, South Carolina placed flowers on the unmarked graves of captured Union soldiers and held a parade to honor the dead. * To learn more about what was originally known as "Decoration Day", check out the links to sources below: * https://www.history.com/news/memorial-day-civil-war-slavery-charleston * https://www.lx.com/black-legacy/dont-overlook-memorial-days-black-southern-roots/53453/ * https://www.live5news.com/2020/02/18/charleston-claims-first-memorial-day-celebration-with-african-americans-playing-significant-role/ * https://amsterdamnews.com/news/2022/05/28/freed-slaves-started-first-memorial-day-in-the-us/ * https://aaregistry.org/story/the-first-american-memorial-day-is-commemorated/ If you like these Daily Drops, follow us on Apple, Google Podcasts, RSS.com, Amazon, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Leave a rating or review, share links to your favorite episodes, or go old school and tell a friend. For more Good Black News, check out goodblacknews.org or search and follow @goodblacknews anywhere on social.