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In the 1800s, the American Colonization Society relocated thousands of freed Black Americans to West...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSlave-owning US presidents Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, and James Madison, as well as leaders...
Lafayette's Findley and Webster moved to Liberia as part of Indiana Colonization Society
Journal & Courier via Yahoo News· 2 months agoIn the mid-19th century, Liberia, a colony of the American Colonization Society on Africa’s western...
A 'radical' 1877 window found in a RI church depicts Jesus as a person of color. What now?
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFor decades, the stained-glass window hid in plain sight. In some ways, it was easy to miss. How...
Things you might not know about Petersburg's Black history
The Progress-Index via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPETERSBURG—The Cockade City is teeming with Black history. From being a place that Martin Luther...
Connecting Juneteenth, Monroe and Monrovia, Liberia
The Monroe News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJuneteenth, also known as Black Independence Day, celebrates the day on June 19, 1865, when all slaves were made aware of the Emancipation Proclamation,...
Slavery’s legacy in Erie and the unfulfilled promise of Juneteenth
Erie Times News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOn June 15, 1825 — 40 years and four days before the unofficial end of human bondage in America, the...
In 1877, a stained-glass window depicted Jesus as Black for the first time − a scholar of visual...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoA stained-glass window that was part of a church shows a dark-skinned Jesus, which was unusual at...
Stained glass window shows Jesus Christ with dark skin, stirring questions about race in New England
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 12 months agoA nearly 150-year-old stained-glass church window that depicts a dark-skinned Jesus Christ...
Review: In ‘Ain’t No Mo’ on Broadway, Black Americans are offered a one-way plane ticket out....
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJordan E. Cooper’s “Ain’t No Mo’,” a blast of a Broadway show, doesn’t so much occupy the space between sketch comedy and old-school play as smash a hole in whatever barrier long has been assumed ...
Special performance at Hosanna School Museum in Harford celebrates 200th anniversary of Liberia's...
The Aegis, Bel Air, Md. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJul. 26—The historic Hosanna School Museum is hosting a special theatrical performance Wednesday to commemorate July 26, 1847, when free and freed Black Americans who relocated to Africa issued ...