cultural history of the united states
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White Kentucky Republican Says Her Dad Was a White Slave…We Have Questions
“My father was a slave, just to a white man and he was white,” State Rep. Jennifer Decker told the NAACP.
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Harvard’s $100 Million, 134-page Mea Culpa for Slavery
The richest university on earth starts to come clean about its ties to America’s original sin.
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'Those Narratives Are So Powerful': The Root Presents: It's Lit! Learns How the Word Is Passed With Clint Smith
Released this June, The Atlantic writer’s stirring ‘Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America’ became an instant No. 1 New York Times bestseller.
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Did Black People Own Slaves?
For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers