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"Black AF History" author on whitewashing the past: "They have tried every way possible to erase us"
Salon via Yahoo News· 7 months agoMichael Harriot Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Fatima Michon As an '80s baby that carved...
It's Claimed that Only 1.6% of US Citizens Owned Slaves In 1860. We Ran the Numbers
Snopes via Yahoo News· 2 months agoTwitter/Wallace Moura/Getty Images On April 2, 2024, the claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned...
DeSantis appointee to Disney board taught seminar using discredited research claiming White people...
CNN via Yahoo News· 10 months agoAn appointee by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to an oversight board of Disney’s special tax district...
Despite what Florida board says, we know who benefited from slaves. It wasn’t us | Opinion
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 10 months agoWhose idea is it to try to make us believe that the poor, abused and burdened people, who were...
From the archives | Arsons symbolic of racial divide: Fires fuel concerns that history is repeating...
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThis story originally published July 2, 1996. It is being republished as part of the commemoration...
Teachers enraged that Florida’s new Black history standards say slaves could ‘benefit’
Miami Herald via AOL· 10 months agoThe approval of Florida’s new Black history curriculum didn’t surprise Crystal Etienne. A...
SC bill would prevent teaching about slave owners, ‘including George Washington’
The Hill via Yahoo News· 1 year agoYORK COUNTY, S.C. (WJZY) — School lessons on slavery are taught nationwide in classrooms, but one...
Dear Ron DeSantis, slavery was not a job skills program
Salon via Yahoo News· 10 months agoRon DeSantis classroom Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's...
Historic sites are reckoning with New York's slave-owning past. Here's how
Poughkeepsie Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhen New York's third governor, Morgan Lewis, would return to his estate in Hyde Park in the early...
Slavery? DeSantis doesn’t care if students leave classrooms more ignorant than when they arrived |...
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 10 months agoIf the past two years in Florida are any indication, the need to find a silver-lining in slavery is...