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  • Descendant Of Enslaved African Cudjo Lewis Receives Citizenship From Benin
  • Descendants forum unites Black history groups as debate over slavery’s history intensifies
  • Thomas Jefferson’s Black descendant reflects ahead of America’s 250th birthday: ‘I wish he had done more to free enslave

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blackenterprise.com /1 week ago

Descendant Of Enslaved African Cudjo Lewis Receives Citizenship From Benin

More than 165 years after the last known slave ship arrived in the United States, one descendant of its survivors has fulfilled a dream her ancestors never had the chance...

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thegrio.com /6 days ago

Descendants forum unites Black history groups as debate over slavery’s history intensifies

Coalition of descendant-led groups aims to preserve Black history amid debate over slavery’s place in America’s story A coalition of

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thegrio.com /1 week ago

Thomas Jefferson’s Black descendant reflects ahead of America’s 250th birthday: ‘I wish he had done more to free enslave...

Ahead of July 4, Shannon LaNier Jefferson said the Declaration of Independence belongs to every American, including the descendants of

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theguardian.com /2 weeks ago

‘I wish he had done more to free enslaved people’: Thomas Jefferson’s descendant on his family’s complex legacy

Shannon LaNier, Jefferson’s sixth great-grandson, reflects on his lineage and the role of African Americans in the nation’s foundingWhen the US turns 250 years old on Saturday, Sha...

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npr.org /1 week ago

Heirs of 'odious' Supreme Court ruling see modern parallels

Descendants of Dred Scott and Chief Justice Roger Taney spoke about reconciliation at a church in the shadow of the Supreme Court last week as the high court wrestled with race and...

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blackenterprise.com /1 month ago

New York Reparations Hearing Erupts As Descendants Of African Slaves Clash With Liberal Organizations

Tension flared at a recent New York State reparations hearing as advocates for descendants of enslaved Americans clashed with civil rights groups and lawmakers over who should qual...

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aljazeera.com /3 weeks ago

Slave trade reenacted on Juneteenth as leaders demand reparations

Ghana has been hosting a conference to advance the UN resolution declaring slavery the ‘gravest crime against humanity.'

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blackenterprise.com /2 weeks ago

ON THIS DAY: JUNE 30, 1847

The Dred Scott Decision (1857) Dred and Harriet Scott sued for their freedom after living in free territories with their enslaver. The U.S. Supreme Court delivered one of its most....

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wrtv.com /1 week ago

Descendant of Washington's enslaved cook says America's story should include everyone

For many Americans, the country's 250th birthday is a celebration of history and a chance to tell a fuller story.

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startribune.com /5 days ago

Descendants of ‘First 85’ Black families who migrated to Fergus Falls in 1800s head home

Families made a pilgrimage to the west-central Minnesota town that formed them. “This place is a part of me,” 83-year-old Ron Tate said. “The good, and the not so good.”

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rogerebert.com /1 month ago

250 Years Later and Blacks Are Still Politically and Racially Enslaved

A look at Black American history (and present) through the lens of the tenth anniversary of Ava DuVernay's "13th."

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ebony.com /1 week ago

When We Were Freed: An Excerpt

Discover how Black communities turned emancipation celebrations into powerful acts of faith, memory, and resistance.

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wcpo.com /1 week ago

Descendant of Washington's enslaved cook says America's story should include everyone

For many Americans, the country's 250th birthday is a celebration of history and a chance to tell a fuller story.

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anglicanmainstream.org /1 month ago

The UN, Slavery, and History’s Selective Amnesia

By Hélène de Lauzun, European Conservative. On March 25th, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution describing the transatlantic slave trade and the enslavement of...

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abc17news.com /3 weeks ago

Freed Black Americans add to Mid-Missouri’s story

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) In the year 2026, the United States of America celebrates its 250th anniversary of freedom and independence. However, on July 4, 1776, not everyone in this cou...

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livinglutheran.org /3 weeks ago

Know that you are free

Editor’s note: This post was originally published on the ELCA Racial Justice blog. Let’s take a trip back to high school history class: The history of enslaved people on what would...

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baptistnews.com /4 weeks ago

Juneteenth reminds us of Black Americans’ long struggle for education following end of slavery

The abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass is known for many things, but perhaps among the most significant is his views on education’s relationship to slavery. Douglass himsel...

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blavity.com /3 weeks ago

African And Caribbean Nations Unveil Reparations Framework As Slave Trade Reenactment Held In Ghana

African and Caribbean nations have outlined a plan for reparatory justice as they demand apologies from countries that participated in the transatlantic slave trade.

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blackenterprise.com /1 month ago

Juneteenth And The Covenant Of Economic Liberation

Written by Orvin Kimbrough Freedom was declared. But the news arrived late. And for far too many, the fullness of freedom is still delayed. On June 19, 1865, under the...

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msmagazine.com /2 weeks ago

Looking to Black and Indigenous Foremothers to Resist Erasure

Free Black women and Indigenous women are the foremothers of generations of African Americans. Yet they remain largely absent from the official story of American freedom. Their liv...

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