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Ancestry.com has pulled an ad after the company was blasted by critics on social media depicting slavery as a romanticized adventure. “Abigail, we can escape to the North. There’s a place we can be together — across the border.” The ad 30-second spot titled “Inseparable,” shows a white man and a Black woman in Civil […]

Everyone’s buzzing about Kanye’s appearance on TMZ yesterday where he proclaimed that slavery was a choice. *insert eye roll*   Welp. You should have known that a hashtag was coming after Kanye’s nonsensical statement.     Facebook: The Karen Clark Instagram: @TheKarenClark Twitter/Snapchat: @The_KarenClark    

Each week things heat up and Wednesday’s episode was no different! Let’s jump in. Cato hosts a prestigious party in Philadelphia attended by Frederick Douglass (played by the show’s Executive Producer, John Legend) and other prominent abolitionists to discuss the cause, but not before chaos ensues. Back at the boarding house, hunters arrest Georgia for […]

With photos of Harriet Tubman being few and far between, when a rare new photo of her surfaced it was a huge deal. While most photos depict Tubman as an elderly woman, a newly unearthed picture shows a much younger Tubman and was quickly acquired by the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African-American History […]

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Oney “Ona” Judge, also known as Oney Judge Staines, gained fame as an escaped slave who avoided the search efforts of President George Washington. Much of Judge’s story became known shortly before her death via a pair of interviews and was a valuable resource to abolitionists. Born in 1773 at Virginia’s Mount Vernon estate to […]

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The NBA imposed the fine Monday after using the n-word in an interview on Friday.

A new study finds that the counties or areas of the country where slavery was most prevalent today vote Republican and continue to have the least progressive views on race.

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Eli Whitney, who is credited for patenting the cotton gin machine on this day in 1794, became a topic of discussion at the top of this year’s Black History Month. Although the farmer and inventor was depicted as a Black man to some students, in fact, Whitney was a white man. Born December 8, 1765 […]

The South Mountain Elementary School apologized for the assignment and took the drawings down from the school's hallway.

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The room of Sally Hemings, a slave who had a long-term relationship with Thomas Jefferson, will be excavated at Monticello.

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Rep. John Conyers held a Capitol Hill briefing to spark dialogue about reparations.