Anti-DEI threatens Enslaved.org. How to support Black History and Genealogy.
Unless you reside under the Rocky Mountains, you’ve heard that DEI is under assault. How anti-DEI initiatives are affecting us…
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Black History
RootsMagic 10 software on sale until Monday. Get yours.
You have a family tree on AncestryDNA. Or MyHeritage. Or Family Search. Is that enough? No. You need a tree…
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Pulitzer Center accepting applications for its 1619 Summer Incubator program
What is the significance of 1619? The year 1619 is the year the first enslaved Africans arrived in the English…
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Wrongfully Taken Remains of 19 African Americans Returned from Germany. Dillard University Honors Them.
The remains of nineteen African-American men and women from New Orleans have been returned from the University of Leipzig to…
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Harvard Ends 15-Year Legal Battle. Gives Up Claim to Early Photos of Enslaved Americans.
A decade and a half ago, Tamara Lanier discovered that Harvard University held the original photos of her 3X-great-grandfather Renty…
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Mass Graves of Civil War Black Union Soldiers Possibly Located in Kentucky
In early 1865, Company E of the 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry in Kentucky got an assignment–drive cattle from Camp Nelson…
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