Land reparations are possible − and over 225 US communities are already working to make amends for slavery and colonization
Now governments and communities across the US are redistributing land and wealth, from Evanston, Illinois, to Athens, Georgia ...
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 ...
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 ...
Critics see Trump attacks on the ‘Black Smithsonian’ as an effort to sanitize racism in US history
Civil rights advocates, historians and Black political leaders sharply rebuked Trump on Friday for his order, entitled ...
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Why Jews were like everyone else — only more so — during slavery and the Civil War
Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...
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Harriet Tubman fought slavery. Most of the men on US paper currency had ties to it
A US Senator wants to speed up a decade-long plan to replace Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 bill with abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat from New Hampshire ...
Miami's Haitian community gathers in prayer as crises escalate in homeland and US
Packed pews, rollicking singing and emotional devotions have marked Lent worship services at Notre Dame d'Haiti, the Catholic ...
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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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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 ...