Slavery
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Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively feel 'shame' over 2012 plantation wedding. Now, the venue is responding
Ryan Reynolds says he and wife Blake Lively regret holding their 2012 wedding on a former slave plantation.
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George Clooney calls anti-black racism 'America’s greatest pandemic in powerful essay
George Clooney has written an essay about the death of George Floyd and in it, he calls anti-black racism “America’s greatest pandemic.”
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High school students erect gravestone for former slave who died 174 years ago
Massachusetts high schoolers held a memorial service for a former slave who died in 1845.
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School apologizes for homework prompting students to pretend they own slaves
The handwritten assignment included a prompt that read, "Your family owns slaves. Create a list of expectations for your family's slaves."
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High school student suspended for wearing Confederate flag attire: 'It's Southern pride'
A high school student in Arkansas has been suspended for wearing — and refusing to remove — a Confederate flag-themed shirt and face paint.
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Models wear 'not for sale' tags to protest Libya slave trade crisis in powerful photo shoot
With this photo shoot, photographer Kofi Dua aims to raise awareness about the migrant slave trade crisis in Libya.
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These powerful portraits of a black family will leave you speechless
Brittany Mayo had a specific vision in mind for the location of a family photo shoot: a plantation in her native Louisiana, to pay homage to her ancestors.