Issa Rae Wanted to Be a Bartender, But Business Mogul Will Do
The serial entrepreneur and creator of Insecure discusses her hair care brand, Sienna Naturals, balancing her projects, and ...
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How a Former Slave Became the Rockefeller of New York City’s Oyster Restaurants
Thomas Downing — a freeman born to formerly enslaved people in Virginia — became one of the city’s wealthiest citizens as the ...
Enslaved people took refuge at pioneering hotel on NC Outer Banks. But perils awaited
A major flash point came when Union soldiers entered Hotel De Afrique and “attacked the defenseless occupants with knives and ...
Reverend, a slave, and the Black Heritage Trail of NH
The final twist to the story is that, thanks to an act of grace and courage by a modern lawyer, Jack McGee, the home site of ...
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Erie’s first black resident, Boe Bladen, the original owner of Glenwood Estates land
As we continue our observance of black history month, we do a deeper dive into the life of the first black property owner in the region. Bladen not only was the first black property owner, he was ...
Author Tara Roberts dives into history with memoir on Transatlantic Slave Trade shipwrecks
A Memoir of History, Home, and Belonging is a powerful narrative intertwined with the historical experiences of slaves. (7News) ...
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Born Enslaved, This Black Millionaire Attempted to Colonize Mexico and Aspired to Be the Emperor of Ethiopia
In 1904, two Americans boarded the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm II and set off for Africa. One was Kent J. Loomis, brother to the ...
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Holocaust Remembrance Day versus slavery heritage
THE world set aside January 27 every year as International Holocaust Remembrance Day to remember one of the worst human tragedies of all times. The holocaust was a systematic genocide against European ...
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KEY WEST’S MEL FISHER MARITIME MUSEUM INSTALLS NEW PERMANENT EXHIBIT
In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West, shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the shipwreck and ...
The meter of history: The Jerry Rescue and the struggle against slavery
Abolitionist Rev. Jermain Loguen called Syracuse's Jerry Rescue of 1851 “earthquake voice through the land” against slavery.