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Robert Smalls to be honored with South Carolina’s first monument dedicated to an African American
Robert Smalls will soon become the first African American to be honored with an individual statue in South Carolina. Smalls is best known for his daring escape during the Civil War, where he disguised himself in Confederate clothing, stole a slaveholder’s ship, and sailed his family and a dozen others to freedom. After the war,…
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11 Black-Americans who have traced their African ancestry or became citizens
In 2019, Ghana successfully hosted the “Year of Return,” a year-long series of...
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How African Americans gained the rights to vote
The struggle for African Americans to secure voting rights was a turbulent process, marked...
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‘They let him die because they want his organs’: parents accuse NC hospital after young black son dies under “strange” circumstances
The untimely death of Terrance “T” Howard, a young Black college football player,...
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Look of the Week: Morris Chestnut
Morris Chestnut wore a tailored blue suit to the Legends series premiere at Tribeca Grand Screening Room in New York City.
