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White Work and Reparative Genealogy invites white-identifying readers on a courageous journey into the heart of ancestral memory, historical accountability, and racial repair.
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In correspondence with a passionate abolitionist in London, the great American orator didn't hold back when talking about the 16th president, or his successor, the much-maligned Andrew Johnson.
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Researchers have discovered a second mass grave of Irish immigrant railroaders in Chester County, Pa.
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James "Spider" Martin was assigned to photograph the protests in Alabama after civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson was killed by state troopers.
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Pulitzer prize winner David Blight follows his biography of Frederick Douglass with a deep dive into his university’s dark past
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With 10 archival files, Trace/s upends simplistic narratives about New York’s history with enslavement
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The “Negro Motorist Green Book,” a guide for African Americans first published in 1936, was a valued resource at a time when travel held the promise of adventure but was also perilous. It is now the subject of an exhibit showcasing the history, struggles and triumphs of Black travel in America.
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An Axios review of a new National Archives portal found just three digitized unsolved cases of lynchings, racial violence and murders of Black Americans, spawning several decades. The Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection portal is the federal agency's latest attempt to index civil rights violations and provide a subject guide, part of an aim spelled out by law to bring justice to the victims in those cases.
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Missing Pieces Project maps buildings in 189 locations where African American abolitionists spoke against slavery
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Center was one of the first US schools for formerly enslaved people, and now preserves Gullah Geechee culture
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it intended to launch a formal review of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 when white supremacists destroyed a thriving Black business district and killed hundreds of people in the Oklahoma city.. “It only took 103 years, but this is a joyous occasion," said Damario Solomon-Simmons, the lawyer who filed a lawsuit on behalf of remaining survivors.
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The reality of the court’s decision is that there isn’t a number to quantify Black pain for survivors and their lineage
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In the 1920s, Southern California’s Inland Empire was a bucolic place, dotted with small towns set amid orange groves. It was also a growing outpost for the Ku Klux Klan, whose members subjected the region’s minority residents to exclusion, harassment, and violence in following decades. Today, antisemitic, anti-Muslim, anti-Black, anti-Latino, anti-Asian, and anti-LGBTQ movements persist, with hate crimes again on the rise, alongside a new generation of domestic extremist groups. Can the...
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For the formerly enslaved Black people in Texas, Juneteenth meant more than freedom. It meant reuniting families and building schools and developing political power.
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Started in 1936 by Harlem postman Victor Green, The Negro Motorist Green Book was a guide published over three decades that helped African Americans travel the country safely, and with dignity, during a time of Jim Crow laws and segregation. Presented until 10 March at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles; from 30 March to 23 June 2024 at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta; and from 13 July to 13 October 2024 at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati.
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Virtual Exhibit: Started in 1936 by Harlem postman Victor Green, The Negro Motorist Green Book was a guide published over three decades that helped African Americans travel the country safely, and with dignity, during a time of Jim Crow laws and segregation. The Green Book was also an indispensable resource for the era’s successful Black-owned businesses and rising African American middle class.
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La industria petroquímica y de combustibles fósiles en el área de Luisiana conocida como “Corredor del Cáncer” ha devastado la salud, la vida y el medioambiente de quienes residen allí.
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L’industrie des combustibles fossiles et de la pétrochimie dans une zone de Louisiane surnommée « Cancer Alley » (« Allée du cancer »), a dévasté la santé, la vie et l’environnement des habitants.
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The fossil fuel and petrochemical industry in the Louisiana area that has come to be known as “Cancer Alley” has devastated the health, lives, and environment of residents.
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Matter-of-fact accounting of the legal mechanism of slavery provides insight into American history and the country’s fraught present. At a time when many schools across the country grapple with teaching truthful American history, the preservation of precious archival documents can provide a vital lens through which to understand the past and its implications for the present and future.
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