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Underground Railroad walking trail coming to Sandusky
News Channel 5 Cleveland· 21 hours agoSandusky was critical during the Underground Railroad, helping enslaved people escape to freedom....
Read Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech in its entirety
Mountain View Telegraph· 6 days agoCivil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. addresses the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial in...
Freed slave was original owner of area now known as Fondren
WLBT 3· 2 days agoAs Fondren moves forward with its vision for the future, there is a little-known fact about its...
The British Countryside’s Forgotten History of Slavery
Foreign Policy Magazine· 5 hours agoHere, giant cliffs face the sea; beyond it lies the Atlantic and North America. Today this is an...
NYC Audubon group changes name to reject namesake's pro-slavery views
United Press International via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe New York City Audubon Society has officially changed its name to distance itself from the...
Daphne's overlooked cemetery recognized, honoring slaves and soldiers on D-Day anniversary
WPMI NBC 15· 3 days agoIt's the final resting place of dozens of civil war era and World War II soldiers, as well as...
SMH...Yet Another Court Blocks Black Woman-Owned Grant Program From Giving Money to Underserved...
The Root· 6 days agoIn another blow to affirmative action efforts nationwide, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh...
New at Peter White Public Library
The Mining Journal· 1 day agoAdy and her mother, Sanite, worked hard, were abused anyway, and then sold to the next slave owner for more of the same. After her mother died of yellow ...
New York City Audubon changes name over racist past
The Hill via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe New York City Audubon organization has officially changed its name to NYC Bird Alliance to distance itself from the history of John James Audubon,...
Echoes of Drew Scott case in today’s Supreme Court | Letters
NJ.com· 4 days agoIn 1857, four of the U.S. Supreme Court justices hearing the Dred Scott v. Sanford case were slave...
