Harriet Tubman fought slavery. Most of the men on US paper currency had ties to it
A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...
Critics see Trump attacks on the 'Black Smithsonian' as an effort to sanitize racism in US history
President Donald Trump's order accusing the Smithsonian Institution of not reflecting American history notes correctly that ...
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Descendants of people enslaved by St. Louis University say they cannot participate in formal apology
St. Louis University was set to apologize for enslaving people. Hours before the ceremony, a group of descendants of Black ...
SLU postpones formal apology for role in slavery after descendants group declines to participate
The decision came soon after the Descendants of the St. Louis University Enslaved informed the university that they would not ...
The Forward on MSN3d
Why Jews were like everyone else — only more so — during slavery and the Civil War
General Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox came the day before the first night of Passover 1865. A Chicago rabbi, Liebmann Adler, welcomed the conclusion of the Civil War and the end to slavery, ...
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Venezuela accuses US of kidnapping its citizens and returning to a time of slavery
White House is doubling down on its deportation defense, concerning 261 migrants sent Saturday to go high-security prison in ...
Three graphic novels that address the history of slavery – and commemorate resistance
Here are three recent graphic novels that can help us to remember resistance against slavery. They follow in the footsteps of ...
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NY wants to replace statue of slave-owning Founding Father with one of Harriet Tubman
Each state honors two notable people in their history by donating statues to the National Statuary Hall Collection in the U.S ...
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SPECIAL REPORT: Slavery in the Straits
Wilson says Native American tribes in the straits practiced slavery for a variety of cultural reasons. That’s changed as ...
Miliband accused of turning blind eye to modern slavery in pursuit of net zero
Ed Miliband has been accused of turning a blind eye to modern slavery in order to appease China. The Energy Secretary has ...
Daily Post Nigeria on MSN4d
‘Slave markets thrive in Africa’ – Soyinka laments kidnapping of Nigerians
Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka on Tuesday described the decade-long abduction of schoolgirls from Chibok town in Borno State, ...
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Slavery? Not yet dead, but still very much with us - Soyinka
The World Poetry Day celebration in Nigeria was organized by Providus Bank in conjunction with Professor Soyinka. While ...