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Juneteenth is helping families discover details about enslaved ancestors
Axios· 2 hours agoThe big picture: Never before in U.S. history have descendants been able to easily access so many...
Disney opens Tiana’s Bayou Adventure with a Black princess at the helm
The Christian Science Monitor· 4 days agoThe new theme park attraction updates Tiana’s storyline from the 2009 animated film “The Princess...
Celebrating Juneteenth & Freedom Is in My DNA — Now I'm Passing the Tradition On
Apartment Therapy via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoMy first experiences with Juneteenth — the day when enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas,...
Harriet Tubman led a raid that freed more than 700 enslaved people. A South Carolina church has...
CNN.com· 8 hours agoIn the early hours of June 2, 1863, Union army gunboats idled along the banks of South Carolina’s...
Yuen: Memories of the Jim Crow South haunted a Minnesota man. Then the nightmares terrorized his...
Tribune via AOL· 6 hours agoNightmares afflicted the father of Lee Hawkins Jr. and awoke his son, then just a little boy growing up in the St. Paul suburb of Maplewood. His dad would jostle out of his sleep screaming, ...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 20 hours agoThe woman known by many as one of the most important figures of the Black Power Movement was shocked to learn that she has a direct biological connection to the Mayflower. Researchers determined ...
'Reclaiming Our Names' 13News Now documentary airs on Juneteenth
13 News, WVEC Hampton Roads· 5 days ago"Roach" is 13News Now anchor Janet Roach's maiden and married name. She's discovering very...
'Perfectly preserved' centuries-old cherries unearthed at George Washington's Mount Vernon estate
13 News, WVEC Hampton Roads· 3 hours agoGeorge Washington never did cut down the cherry tree, despite the famous story to the contrary, but...
10 Infamous Serial Killers Who Were Never Caught
MediaFeed via AOL· 3 days agoAs riveting as it is to follow the twisted narratives of serial murderers on screen, many killers have never been caught in real life. Here are 10...
A white mob in Ohio denied land to hundreds of former slaves, a lawmaker wants to right that wrong
Crain's Cleveland Business· 1 day agoHamilton described the descendants of one Freedman named Henry Clay finding out only after getting their DNA tested. Clay was so light that his freedom papers described him ...
