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  • a portrait of Frances Thompson in dress with parasol
    Photo credit: es.m.wikipedia.org – Unknown Artist, "The Days' Doings," New York, August 12, 1876
    Culture, Justice, Society

    How transgender heroine Frances Thompson created civil rights reform in the 19th century American South

    Elyssa Goodman

    2/21/2025
  • Legacy

    A loophole in the Constitution makes a form of slavery legal and is nearly impossible to fix

    Tperry

    12/4/2020
  • Legacy

    Rep. Jim Cyburn says it’s ‘God-awful’ for Attorney General Barr to compare Covid lockdown to slavery

    Tperry

    9/17/2020
  • Culture, Legacy

    Ten years after running away, Frederick Douglas sent a beautiful and brutal letter to his old master

    Tperry

    11/22/2019
  • Articles, Legacy

    Missing from Presidents’ Day: The People They Enslaved

    Clarence Lusane

    2/15/2014
  • Instead of Worshiping Dr. King, How About Working Like Him?

    José Vilson

    1/19/2014
  • Articles, Legacy

    Why the ‘Harriet Tubman Sex Tape’ is a Sign We Need to Teach Slavery’s Real History

    Beatrice Ebijimi

    8/21/2013
  • Articles, Legacy

    What Climate Activists Can Learn From the Abolitionist Movement

    Bill Bigelow

    4/24/2013
  • Articles, Legacy

    Slavery-Era Solutions For Modern Problems? Emory’s President Thinks So

    William Katz

    2/24/2013
  • Articles, Legacy

    The Emancipation Proclamation Story That Should Be Taught in Schools

    William Katz

    1/12/2013

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