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The descendants of slaves and slave owners held a meeting at Prospect Hill plantation in Mississippi.

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Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey renamed areas of its campus to pay homage to former slaves.

Parents at a Phoenix elementary school are shocked and upset by students using an online game that simulating slavery called Mission US: Flight to Freedom.

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White teachers at Whitney High School Cerritos, California, have been re-enacting slavery as a lesson for 10 years.

A former Trump campaign spokeswoman called slavery good history during a debate on Fox about what to do with Confederate monuments.

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Ava DuVernay took to Twitter to share a poignant image of a memorial dedicated to former First Lady Michelle Obama's ancestor Melvinia Shields.

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Ku Klux Klan members rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia against plans to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

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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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.

Officials at Harvard University publicly recognized the institution's deep-rooted historical ties to slavery Friday during an eye-opening conference with many attendees including best-selling author and The Atlantic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates.

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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.