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Column: Restore Fort Monroe’s 1619 name: Point Comfort
The Virginian-Pilot· 7 hours agoIn 1619 as “Point Comfort,” that historic landscape saw the dawn of British North America’s slavery....
Freedom Monument Park tells honest story of enslaved people
NPR· 6 days agoThe new park is a direct confrontation with slavery and its impact on this country and is EJI's third public space, which includes The Legacy Museum and a memorial for victims ...
Can 14 strangers from Wisconsin help America find common ground on abortion?
Iowa Capital Dispatch via Yahoo News· 1 day ago“Each one of us has a beginning, and that unique beginning … is conception,” Lang said. “And I would...
Leftist Tokenism Destroys Genuine Knowledge Of America\u2019s Amazing Black History, by Marie...
National Center for Public Policy Research· 20 minutes agoWoodsonu2019s goal, however, was not to segregate black history to a specific time of the year, but to encourage year-round, ongoing recognition of those who had often been overlooked. Many ...
Slavery isn’t just a Southern story. The North benefitted from stolen labor. - CSMonitor.com
The Christian Science Monitor· 3 days agoAfter the Panic of 1837, bankers like the Browns assumed legal possession of these “assets” when planters defaulted on their loans. Investigative journalist David Montero untangles the economic ...
Review: Gravity and tension in ‘Joe Turner’s Come and Gone’ at Goodman Theatre
Chicago Tribune· 18 hours agoIn August Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” the most mystical of Wilson’s 10 great American...
A history of the Statue of Liberty getting destroyed or distorted in movie posters
Salon via Yahoo News· 1 day agoOn paper, it’s supposed to symbolize the best attributes of America. A gift from the French, the...
Barbados 'Pauses' Acquisition of Former Slavery Plantation Owned by Tory MP
US News & World Report· 3 days agoMultiple generations of people were enslaved at the 250-hectare Drax Hall plantation in Saint George, Barbados, a Caribbean nation that received at least 600,000 Africans between 1627 and 1833 ...
America has a hothead problem
WAMC Northeast Public Radio· 5 days agoNew York and Virginia bore a large part of America’s war history. The Revolution’s crucial battles were fought in New York before England reconcentrated on the South, at which ...
Russia continues to employ sex violence in its military and occupation operations in Ukraine - UN
The New Voice of Ukraine via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine recorded 85 cases of war-related sexual violence...
