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    Apr 28

    Keith, whose judicial career spanned five decades and 10 presidents, decided cases that involved some of America's most controversial political and social issues, from school desegregation to government surveillance of citizens.

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    Apr 29

    She was captured and enslaved 400 years ago. Now Angela symbolizes a brutal history.

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    Apr 16

    As the debate about reparations for slavery intensifies, it is important to remember that slaveowners, far more than enslaved people, were always the primary beneficiaries of public largess, writes

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    Apr 13

    Her ancestors fled to Mexico to escape slavery 170 years ago. The matriarch of the Mascogos tribe still sings in English to this day.

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  5. Apr 9

    23andMe now has over 10 million users. Have you DNA tested? If so, please share your experience. If not, why not? Please let us know.

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  6. Apr 7

    Columbia University Historian Eric Foner said, "It's the first time...

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  7. Apr 6

    The project — named Enslaved — will attempt to gather research about historic slavery in one place. Until now, much of that information has only been in books or museums, or scattered...

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  8. Apr 3

    Here is another story about Redoshi/Sally Smith, the last known survivor of the slaveship Clotilda, with more details about her life.

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  9. Apr 3

    A woman abducted from Africa as a child has been identified as the last known survivor of the slave ships that took kidnapped West Africans to the United...

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  10. Mar 31

    A newly discovered photograph shows Harriet Tubman as “stylish and in the vibrancy of her youth.”

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  12. Mar 19

    Mansa Musa: The richest man who ever lived

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  13. Mar 17

    "In his legacy as prophetic radical and political pragmatist, in the almost unimaginable bravery of his early journey and the resilience of his later career, in his achievements as a...

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  14. Mar 16

    Adbaraya Toya is celebrated as one of the bravest women in Haitian history for her great influence on the many that fought in the Haitian Revolution.

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  15. Mar 12

    The freed American slaves who came to live in Trinidad.

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  16. Mar 10

    Mar. 10, 1865 | Confederate Soldiers Hang Black Woman in Darlington, South Carolina

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  17. Mar 8

    Slavery and the Great Migration are but two of 13 mass movements of Black people that changed the nation.

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  19. Feb 23

    "The all-black towns of Oklahoma represent a...

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  20. Feb 20

    In coastal South Carolina, Gullah's African roots persevere amid community change.

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