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(TriceEdneyWire.com)—“The history of the United States is a story about the disenfranchisement of millions based on their Blackness. More than a...
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by Marc H. Morial
(TriceEdneyWire.com)—“We acknowledge descendants of the survivors, and the victims continue to bear the trauma of this act of racial terrorism....
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1831—The Nat Turner slave rebellion begins in Southampton, Va. It was the best organized and most deadly slave revolt in American history....
Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass became one of the leading abolitionists in America. Bettmann/Getty Images
by Christine Kinealy, Quinnipiac University
Though Frederick Douglass remains the most...
Emancipation Day celebration, June 19, 1900, held in ‘East Woods’ on East 24th St. in Austin, Texas. Austin History Center
by Kris Manjapra, Tufts University
The...
Freedom is a key concept to study.
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by Raphael E. Rogers, Clark University
Whenever I tell high school students in classes I...
President Joe Biden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Congressman James E. Clyburn. (Photo: DreamInColor Photo / NNPA)
by Stacy M. Brown and Ashleigh Fields, The Washington...
B. MARSHALL, FAR RIGHT, WITH WIFE, MARGO DOSS, FAR LEFT, AND GOSPEL SENSATION ERICA CAMPBELL, AT THE 2023 JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION AT POINT STATE PARK.
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