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Showing posts with label slavery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label slavery. Show all posts
Monday, November 07, 2022

'Descendant': A documentary about the descendants of the Clotilda, a sunken slave ship

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Descendant follows members of Africatown, a small community in Alabama, as they share their personal stories and community history as desc...
Thursday, June 16, 2022

Resolution apologizing for Boston's role in slavery approved by city council

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Boston’s city council unanimously approved a resolution Wednesday apologizing for the Massachusetts capital’s role in the trans-Atlantic s...
Monday, July 31, 2017

HBO statement on #NoConfederate

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There has been controversy around HBO's upcoming show Confederate since it was announced. During last nights airing on Game of Thr...
Thursday, April 20, 2017

Atoning for Slavery Ties, Georgetown University Renames Buildings

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On Tuesday, April 18, with a Liturgy of Remembrance, Contrition and Hope, Georgetown University performed more penance for its 1838 ...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Colson Whitehead wins Pulitzer Prize for 'Underground Railroad'

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The Underground Railroad, an inventive and searing take on slavery in 1850s Georgia, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction Monday, addin...
Saturday, March 11, 2017

Alabama Senate passes Confederate monuments bill

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The Alabama Senate has passed a bill that bars changes from being made to Confederate or long-standing monuments in the state. The ones ...
Tuesday, March 07, 2017

Ta-Nehisi Coates believes Harvard should pay reparations for it's ties to slavery

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While giving a keynote address at a conference, entitled “Universities and Slavery: Bound By History” at Harvard University, writer T...
Saturday, November 19, 2016

Scarlet & Black: Rutgers University acknowledges it's past ties to slavery

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'Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History' Brings University’s Untold Story Out of the Shadows ...
Sunday, September 18, 2016

American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt

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With the upcoming release of "Birth of a Nation" a movie about a slave rebellion led by Nat Turner you may be interested to ...
Thursday, September 01, 2016

Georgetown to make up for past ties to slavery

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Georgetown University is taking steps to atone for its historical ties to slavery. The plan includes giving the descendants of slaves ...
Friday, May 27, 2016

Re-Imagining of Roots will air on several channels

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History Channels Roots re-imagining premieres on May 30 at 8 PM EST/9 CST . It will air simultaneously on the channels History, A&E ...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Photos of slave descendants donated to Smithsonian

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A "time capsule" of photographs documenting the descendants of enslave African-Americans on a long-isolated island off the...