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The Historical Legacy of Watch Night

Watch Night or “Freedom's Eve,” marks when African Americans across the country watched and waited for the Emancipation Proclamation to take

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Video Gallaudet University holds graduation for 23 Black deaf students 70 years later

In an emotional moment, Gallaudet University held a graduation ceremony for 23 Black deaf students and their teachers more than 70 years aft

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Searching for a Fortress Built by People Who Escaped Slavery

Its ruins are somewhere in the swamps of Georgia. What will it take to find them?

"American Maroon communities weren’t as large as their counterparts in Central and South America, she writes, and they didn’t wage wars against enslavers; their settlements weren’t well documented, and, whereas everyone has heard of the Underground Railroad, marronage “lacked the high drama of the escape to the North.” Diouf also argues that the Maroons’ “narrative of autonomous survival without benevolent white involvement” probably lacked mass appeal."

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Very Unique Nightline that introduces us to voices from the past. These are actual slave recordings done in the 1930's and recently digitized. Crafted beautifully by Producer Karen Dewitt. Field Producer & Camera-Fletcher Johnson, Audio- Wayne Boyd

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Going back to the plantation where my ancestors were enslaved : Code Switch

In the second of two episodes, Code Switch co-host B.A. Parker is figuring out what kind of descendant she wants to be. Parker and her mom d

What kind of descendant do you want to be? How do you honor them and their sacrifices?

"These people were our forefather. And we are the children. And the ones who came before, they were our ancestors, the first ones on the shore. I said we are the children of those who had the courage to survive. Their spirit was never broken. They gave us the vision to keep their dreams alive." ~Jeffrey Littlejohn's 'Somerset Theme, The Children'

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Opinion | Frederick Douglass Knew What False Patriotism Was

Frederick Douglass expanded the meaning of American patriotism by reminding the nation what it still owed its populace.

"Our country wants a certain version of the American story told and will laud anyone willing to tell it. But uncritical celebration is a limited and false definition of patriotism...

[Frederick] Douglass had the audacity to believe that America's story was not finished until the country kept all her promises. There is a hidden affection in the stinging words of rebuke."

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Jill Scott Sings New National Anthem

“Oh can you see by the blood in the streets, this place doesn’t smile on you colored child. Whose blood built this land with sweat and their hands. But we’ll die in this place and your memory erased. Oh say, does this truth hold any weight. This is not the land of the free but the home of the slaves!!!!”

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For these innocent people have no other hope. They are, in effect, still trapped in a history which they do not understand; and until they understand it, they cannot be released from it. ~James Baldwin The Fire Next Time

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As Hip-Hop Turns 50, a Look Back at the Faces, Names, and Voices Who Created It

From Salt-N-Pepa to Wu-Tang, Grandmaster Flash to Kendrick Lamar, VF takes a fantastic voyage through hip-hop’s past.

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Detroit Walk to Freedom

(Francis Miller. 1963)

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Why Republicans Keep Calling for the End of Birthright Citizenship

By questioning birthright, politicians threaten to undo a fundamental precept of our democracy.

“What the Birthright-Citizenship Debate Is Really About. By questioning birthright, politicians threaten to undo a fundamental precept of our democracy.”

“When we talk about birthright citizenship, we are talking about democracy—its fundamental component that grants equal status to every person born in this country and affords them all the same rights of citizenship.”

~Martha Jones

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With "Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow," Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum examines Black Americans' struggle for equality in 50 years after Civil War

North Texas museum examines Black Americans' struggle for equality in 50 years after Civil War

A groundbreaking exhibition coming to North Texas will examine hard truths about what life was like for Black Americans in the 50 years foll

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Reconstructing Rights: The Reconstruction Amendments Featuring Dr. Allison Dorsey

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Weight For It

Weight For It unpacks the nuanced thoughts of fat folks, and of all folks who think about their weight all the time. Through narrative stor

Weight For It unpacks the nuanced thoughts of fat folks, and of all folks who think about their weight all the time. Through narrative storytelling, host, Ronald Young Jr. hopes to have the conversations that we tend to avoid when it comes to our bodies.