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The city looks forward to resuming conversations with Lamar Advertising on the future of the billboard located at Shockoe ...
For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...
What is true of fiction is also true of faith. We can’t just say “I forgive you”; we must act in ways that make that ...
SARATOGA SPRINGS — A bronze statue of Solomon Northup, renowned city historical figure and author of the memoir “Twelve Years ...
Racial Injustice in the United States” PHOTO COURTESY OF BLOOMSBURY.COM In 1982, Ronald Reagan declared a war on drugs. Just three years later, ...
The FBI and a Mississippi sheriff investigated complaints about brutal assaults, but the deputies accused remained on the ...
Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...
Baptist ministers from the Boston area signed an anti-slavery manifesto. It was a 5-foot-long handwritten scroll titled “A ...
The handwritten resolution, signed by 116 Baptist ministers from Massachusetts who called slavery “repugnant,” was thought to ...
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From Slavery to ICE: The Paper Trail of Oppression
In the United States, power often comes down to documentation. For centuries, those in power have used documents to police ...
A judge awarded a woman $29.6 million in damages Tuesday morning in a lawsuit filed against her adoptive parents who ...
The "Circle of Chains" memorial by Steven Whyte, powerfully honors the enslaved individuals who contributed to the state's ...