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Meet Tennessee's neo-Nazi white supremacists

After the Charleston killings, the confederate flag was removed from state grounds across South Carolina, and this weekend white supremacists will hold a pro...

You still have people who are unwilling to lay down their prejudices.”

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The law provided slaves with virtually no protection from their masters. The punishments used against slaves judged to be under-performing included the use of the whip. Sometimes slave-owners resorted to mutilating and branding their slaves.

Bamboozled mentions the practice of white “owners” branding enslaved people with the white people’s initials. This was common practice in US slavery.

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The Truth Behind '40 Acres and a Mule'

Note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these "amazing facts" are an homage.

General Sherman’s promise of 40 acres (the mule came later) meant a radical redistribution of land to formerly enslaved people. The promise was never kept.

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The most Southern 'fuck you' there is. Can be put at the end of a phrase to nullify any cruelty.

In case you need a definition for “Bless Your Heart.”

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Here's the presentation Google gives employees on how to spot unconscious bias at work

More than half of Google's roughly 60,000 employees have gone through this training.

Unconscious bias explains why each of the women in “Bamboozled” carry deep-seated stereotypes they use to judge others.

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An example of a variety of Civil War heirlooms appraised on Antiques Roadshow.

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Battle rages on in Tennessee over Confederate monuments

The monument debate has proven to be another watershed moment — this time, a war of words over historical preservation and haunting echoes of the past.

"The Sons of the Confederacy tend to want to suppress some of the negative history surrounding these statues and the historic figures."

No kidding!