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Classroom thegrio.com
May 30, 2019
The New York State Attorney General's Office completed its investigation of an incident at a Bronxville, New York elementary school…
Confederate
May 29, 2019
Researchers say anti-Black bias is more likely in areas like the Southern U.S., where the economy was dependent on slavery…
April 19, 2019
Genealogy company Ancestory.com recently issued an apology for their latest slavery-inspired advertisement entitled, "Inseparable."
Ancestry.com Slavery enslaved thegrio.com
April 19, 2019
Ancestry.com is the latest company to prove what happens when no Black people (or no Black people with sense) are…
Ancestry
April 19, 2019
The company which helps people find their roots through genetic and historical research apologized for an advertisement that seems to…
April 3, 2019
New research has revealed the name of a woman who may be the last known survivor of the transatlantic slave
edouard_manet_-_olympia thegrio.com
March 29, 2019
The prestigious Musee d’Orsay is holding a new exhibition to shed light on the often nameless Black models that appear
Rosedown
March 22, 2019
The signage at Rosedown Plantation in Louisiana seems to ignore the reality of slavery, instead purporting that slaves were content…
Harvard
March 20, 2019
Tamara Lanier says Harvard University has held a photo of her ancestor for generations but believes she should have the…
Clyburn
March 6, 2019
With Blacks figuring as an important demographic in the next election, reparations for slavery have come into the discussion, but…
slavery, thegrio.com
March 5, 2019
Author Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers research shows that rather than being benevolent and characters in the story of slavery, white women…
Mom outraged after child picks cotton and sings slave songs on class trip. (Fox 46) thegrio.com
February 22, 2019
A class trip to teach students about the Great Depression, has a South Carolina mom upset after she learned her
February 22, 2019
For Black History Month, students at a Virginia school were made to participate in a physical education activity that had
February 15, 2019
A network of organizations are looking to find the locations of places where enslaved blacks have been buried that have…
n-word
February 12, 2019
For Jovan Bradshaw, it was important that her students get the history of slavery right, so she took a creative…
Gayle King thegrio.com
February 10, 2019
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam receives more backlash on social media Sunday for referring to the first Africans as “indentured servants.”
Joycelyn Davis, a direct descendant of Clotilda survivor Charlie Lewis,stands for a portrait at the community center in Africatown in Mobile, Ala., on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. Davis is is organizing the "Spirit of Our Ancestors" festival, a reunion for descendants of Clotilda survivors. “I am so proud to say I am a descendant. That wasn’t a word that I used maybe 10, 15 years ago,” said Davis, 42, a sixth-generation granddaughter of African captive Charlie Lewis. “It was shameful as a child.” (AP Photo/Julie Bennett) thegrio.com
February 8, 2019
The years have been hard on Africatown USA. Established by the last boatload of Africans abducted into slavery and shipped…
Africans
February 7, 2019
Historians are working to learn more about the first Africans to live in Jamestown, America's first successful permanent settlement, to…
African American Statue in Virginiathegrio.com
February 7, 2019
The discovery last week of a racist photo on Gov. Ralph Northam‘s 1984 medical school yearbook page has served as
January 22, 2019
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott agreed Friday to remove a plaque in the state Capitol that rejects…