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Descendants of enslaved Virginians secure seats on board that governs former plantation 

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$3 million in grants going to Black history sites, groups

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More Than Monuments: How African American landmarks can serve as healing spaces in the wake of Charlottesville

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Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Malcolm X's boyhood home, MLK's neighborhood named 'endangered'

theGRIO REPORT – The childhood home of civil rights leader Malcolm X and the neighborhood where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was born have been labeled ‘endangered’…
/ June 7, 2012
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Coltrane house, Chicago hospital called endangered

WASHINGTON (AP) – Jazz musician John Coltrane’s home on Long Island, N.Y. is now amongst America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places…
/ June 15, 2011
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Historian stages sleep-ins to save SC slave cabins

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – When Joe McGill spreads his sleeping bag on the floor of a slave cabin, he knows that spending the night there will conjure the specter of slavery…
/ July 24, 2010