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TheGRIO REPORT: Two brothers have to escape the plantation and get back to present day...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Critics argue it's inappropriate that an ardent supporter of slavery should have his name attached to one…
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - The National Park Service is pushing to make the events more hospitable to black people...
McLEAN, Va. (AP) - A new book by a researcher at George Mason University makes the case that Lincoln was…
GAHANNA, Ohio (AP) - The mother of a black Ohio fifth grader assigned to play a slave for a social…
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The University of Virginia has acquired a rare first edition of an 1829 anti-slavery manifesto that…
VIDEO - Many of the parents argue the although it is important for their children to learn about the slave…
(AP) - The 2000 U.S. Census counted 163,036 people with the surname Washington. Ninety percent of them were African-American...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - They started at a fountain where slaves were once sold, past the church that Martin Luther…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A longtime Murray State University professor has decided to retire after referring to slavery while making…
VIDEO - From his tailor shop here on Dearborn Street, wealthy businessman John Jones ran an important stop on the…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Recent flaps over racially offensive language at the University of Alabama fit a pattern that's dogged…
OPINION - Alex Haley's classic exploration of his own "roots" couldn't have picked a better time to join the newest…
VIDEO - Freshman Arlene Johnson said even though she was early for professor Mark Wattier's class last semester, a film…
BALTIMORE (AP) - The greenhouse on the slave plantation where Frederick Douglass spent part of his childhood is filled with…
SLIDESHOW - Michael Jackson rocked the Super Bowl, Jackie Robinson was born and Coretta Scott King passed away; this is…
MSNBC - Secret rooms. Hidden passageways. Trap doors. An underground escape route through a network of caves, surfacing at a…
REVIEW - Author Daniel Rasmussen uncovers what he calls, "a vast collective amnesia" about the events of that day...