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 ...
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 ...
Land reparations are possible − and over 225 US communities are already working to make amends for slavery and colonization
The historically Black 5th Ward in Evanston, Illinois. The Chicago suburb launched the nation’s first housing-based ...
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'Complicity in injustice': New Haven church wrestles with its connection to slavery 200 years later
A church connected to Lucy and Lois, documented as the final two enslaved people sold in New Haven in 1825, recently held a ...
US tuna giant Bumble Bee Foods accused of profiting from ‘modern-day slavery,’ human trafficking and forced labor: suit
The lawsuit, filed in San Diego federal court on March 12, is the first known US case targeting a seafood company over forced ...
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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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Bumble Bee sued by crew who says they were forced into ‘fishing boat slavery’
This is the first known case of fishing boat slavery brought against a United States seafood company. Industry insiders say ...
DHS warns human trafficking runs rampant on US soil
It can start out with an offer for a job, but within days or weeks, young people across this country can become victims 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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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 ...