Author uncovers 400 years of family's slave history to understand recent traumas
Linsey Davis interviews Lee Hawkins, a journalist, about his searing new memoir, "I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My ...
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One of the most important chefs in American history was a founding father’s slave
One of most important figures in our nation’s culinary history toiled away in the slave kitchens of an American founding ...
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Remembering Matilda, the last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade
Foster navigated the Clotilda, now carrying 108 slaves, into the port of Mobile, Alabama under cover of ... research of their own into the family history. “I had no idea she’d been on the ...
Amid Trump’s Anti-Diversity Effort, Black History Month Takes On New Meaning
Feb. 1 marks the first day of Black History Month, and suddenly the study of the Black experience may feel like an act of ...
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Reporter’s notebook: Minneapolis police, Black men find common ground in Alabama’s past
A group of Minneapolis police officers and Black residents explored history museums and historic sites in Alabama detailing ...
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‘Red Clay’ traces the lives of slave and slaveholder in Reconstruction-era Alabama
Pennsylvania journalist Charles B. Fancher was born six years after his great-grandfather died and didn’t know much about his ancestor until a few years ago. While visiting his “decorous” 92-year-old ...
The Origins Of Black History Month: Celebrations Continue Today
Black History Month started as "Negro History Week" in February 1926 as a way to chronicle the accomplishments of African ...
At Mother Bethel, Villanova professor previews ‘Last Seen,’ her book about how Black families searched for relatives sold during slavery
Villanova University history professor Judith Giesberg has written a new book, "Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly ...