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If you’re wondering what happens when history is bowdlerized or suppressed, lies are enshrined, free enquiry stifled, empathy ...
For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...
Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...
A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...
The suit alleges a U.S. arm of Taiwanese chemical giant Formosa Plastics has hindered access to an unmarked cemetery with ...
A five-foot-long handwritten scroll from Boston in 1847 titled “A Resolution and Protest Against Slavery”—long thought to ...
There is danger in clinging to erroneous information when presented with contradictory evidence. It's a threat to our past and our future.
Elon Musk’s plan to create a new political party puts him in the company of a long line of business and political titans ...
The "Circle of Chains" memorial by Steven Whyte, powerfully honors the enslaved individuals who contributed to the state's ...
By the 1700s, discontent had boiled over. Britain taxed the colonies for sugar, tea and alcohol. American anger rose with ...
The Gilded Age portrays the Black elite of 1880s New York City in a way never before seen on TV, and Season 3 has allowed the ...
When George Washington goes to heaven in the Gullah Traveling Theater’s telling of the American Revolution, Saint Peter stops ...