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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onDecember 3, 2012
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: It was founded during slavery, and it wasn't in the U.S. South.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onNovember 5, 2012
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: He's sometimes called the "Abraham Lincoln" of his nation.
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April 15, 2011
More Africans were taken to Mexico and Peru than to the United States, but the African influence has struggled to survive. Clips from the PBS series by our editor-in-chief.
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by Joel Dreyfuss onApril 13, 2010
One her way to Mexico, the first lady stops off in Haiti, where her husband has yet to visit.
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by Morris Thompson onApril 8, 2010
There are traces of Mother Africa all along Mexico's Pacific Coast. You just have to know where to look.
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by Morris Thompson onApril 7, 2010
Welcome to the Mexico that you don't know. The slaveship express made stops all over the Americas—including the Estados Unidos Mexicanos.
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March 30, 2010
Along the 300-mile narrow coastal plain from Acapulco in Guerrero, Mexico, is the beach town of Huatulco in Oaxaca known as the Costa Chica. There are more than 200 communities where many people have black African ancestry, with varying degrees of obviousness and self-recognition.
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