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The Harvard Crimson2d
Harvard Outsourced Its Slavery Research. Then a Former Employee Began Notifying Descendants — Without Its Knowledge.
After Harvard outsourced efforts to identify the people enslaved by University affiliates and their descendants, the work has ...
The Harvard Crimson3d
American Ancestors Takes Over Harvard Descendant Research After Layoffs
Since January, the genealogical nonprofit American Ancestors has led the effort to identify the descendants of people ...
A plantation museum spotlighting the truths of slavery has lost federal grants in ‘furtherance of the president’s agenda’
The Whitney Plantation museum loses its federal grants for Black history and culture as a result of Trump's attack on DEI.
Historians see Trump attacks on the ‘Black Smithsonian’ as an effort to sanitize racism
It seems like we’re headed in the direction where there’s even an attempt to deny that the institution of slavery even existed." ...
Smithsonian Magazine3d
Remarkable Documents Lay Bare New York’s History of Slavery
Yet as much as these documents illustrate white New Yorkers’ reluctance to end the institution of slavery, they also underline the bold efforts by African Americans to free themselves ...
Black Information Network on MSN2d
Whitney Plantation Loses Federal Grants Used For Teaching Truths Of Slavery
The Whitney Plantation, a former Louisiana plantation that teaches visitors about the truths of slavery and the experiences ...
Trump Strikes Again! Grants Pulled From Whitney Plantation Museum, Which Teaches Slavery Truths
Due to President Donald Trump's anti-diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) push, federal funding has been pulled from ...
NOLA.com7d
Marc Morial: Trump's whitewashing of history is like making gumbo with just one ingredient
In the poisonous fiction of the Lost Cause that was fed to millions of other southerners, the brutal institution of slavery, which the Confederacy seceded to preserve, had nothing to do with the ...