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California Task Force on Reparations Votes to Limit Compensation to Descendants of Slaves [UPDATED]
State compensation will only go to descendants of free and enslaved Black people in the U.S. in the 19th century.
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William Peace University Removes Namesake Statue with Ties to Slavery
Changing the name of the university is also not out of the question
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EXCLUSIVE: Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance to Executive Produce New Docuseries One Thousand Years of Slavery—The Untold Story
The four-part docuseries comes in tandem with the Smithsonian Channel and MTV Entertainment Studios.
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7 Cleveland Schools Named After Slaveholders Set to Be Renamed
Two elementary schools named after founding fathers and slaveholders, Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, are among a growing list of schools to be renamed.
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Barbados is Building a Slavery Museum
New facility will remember victims of trans-Atlantic slave trade
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An Iowa County Once Named for a Slave-Owning Vice President is Now Named After a Trailblazing Black Woman
Lulu Merle Johnson was the first Black woman to earn a doctorate from the University of Iowa.