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A symbol of the slave trade joins US and Cuba
8:50 AM on 03/18/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Amistad, a U.S.-flagged vessel headed for largely forbidden Cuban waters is a symbol of both a dark 19th-century past and modern public diplomacy...
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Smithsonian receives rare Harriet Tubman items
1:21 PM on 03/11/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Tourists and history buffs will be able to see some rare, personal belongings of abolitionist Harriet Tubman when a museum of African-American history opens on the National Mall...
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Graves hold key to earliest slaves
3:50 PM on 03/03/2010
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) - Research shows the first black people settled in South Carolina in the 1600s. They were slaves brought with white settlers....
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GOP Rep: Blacks worse off now than under slavery
3:56 PM on 02/26/2010
Rep. Trent Franks said that because of U.S. abortion policy, "far more of the African American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by the policies of slavery."...
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Why Obama resembles George Washington more than you'd think
9:42 AM on 02/15/2010
OPINION - On President's Day, African-Americans might want to give props to the father of our country...
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Former American slaves played oppressive role in Liberia's past
5:04 AM on 02/01/2010
OPINION - In January 1822, the first group of black American emigrants landed on Providence Island, Liberia...
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Is Negro the new black?
8:00 AM on 01/13/2010
OPINION - It looks like the word "Negro" is back in style these days, for better or for worse. And it appears that white Americans are most eager to blow off the dust and put the term to use.
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Groups claim state failed to protect Va. slave burial site
8:46 AM on 01/06/2010
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A ex-Richmond city councilman is among those asking that Virginia officials excavate part of a university parking lot to determine ...
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Nigerian woman flees 10 years of slavery in Texas
3:04 PM on 12/14/2009
DALLAS (AP) - She was a widow in a Nigerian village trying to raise six children when she says she met a man who told her he and his wife needed a nanny for their newborn...
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Steele calls Sen. Reid's slavery remark 'ignorant'
8:09 AM on 12/09/2009
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele is renewing his demand that Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid apologize for likening health care overhaul opponents to those who resisted putting an end to slavery...
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Racism in the Middle East deserves our attention
8:45 AM on 12/03/2009
OPINION - While Western societies have made societal changes and continue to address racism, there is little acknowledgment in most of the Middle East and North Africa...
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911 call in Shaniya Davis case was a cover up, police say
3:00 PM on 11/18/2009
VIDEO- Police now believe Shaniya's mother was lying in the 911 call she made. They say the call was part of a cover-up and Antoinette Davis knew, just hours earlier, she had sold her daughter as a sex slave.
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Maryland plaque reminds of historic Dred Scott case
9:37 AM on 11/18/2009
FREDERICK, Maryland (AP) - More than 150 years after the U.S. Supreme Court issued the notorious Dred Scott decision affirming slavery, a Maryland city unveiled...
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Churches could fill the gap in black education
6:00 AM on 10/16/2009
OPINION - Perhaps our churches can take a page out of the churches that used their facilities as schools for freed slaves.
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A darker side of Columbus emerges in US classrooms
10:14 AM on 10/12/2009
TAMPA, Fla. - Columbus' stature in U.S. classrooms has declined somewhat through the years, and many districts will not observe his namesake holiday on Monday...
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A visit to the Georgia town of Michelle Obama's roots
5:26 PM on 10/10/2009
VIDEO - "It's such a wonderful story to hear that she has roots here," said local seamstress Naomi Gilson. "But it is teary, makes you kind of hurt a little bit."
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The roots of 'good hair' are about survival, not beauty
7:52 AM on 10/09/2009
OPINION - The term "good hair" harks back to antebellum America, when slaves knew that the less African they appeared, the better treatment they would receive from slave owners...
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Michelle Obama had black and white ancestors, just like most of us
2:45 PM on 10/08/2009
OPINION - The news that First Lady Michelle Obama's great-great-great-grandmother was a slave and that her great-great-great grandfather was a white man has been a topic of much discussion.
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Former slave's family grave is restored
9:02 AM on 09/23/2009
VIDEO - An expert is helping to return one of Connecticut's best-known former slave's family gravesite to its proper place.
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The Obamas tour slave dungeons
4:51 PM on 07/11/2009
Watch President Obama speak of his family's experience touring the slave dungeons of Cape Coast Castle. President Barack Obama said the slave site in Ghana reminds him of humanity's potential for "great evil." But he says it also gives him a reason for hope, given the progress African-Americans have made since...
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A symbol of the slave trade joins US and Cuba
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