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Food was a weapon of control by slaveholders, most often used as a mechanism for domination and exploitation. The story of African American food has also been a story about self-determination and ownership.
Though the ABC limited series is gripping, it drifts too often from Mamie Till-Mobley's point of view
This new book attempts a reassessment of Nat Turner's famous rebellion and what it is we actually know about that event.
The Civil Rights icon, who moved to Chicago in 1919 as one of the earliest participants in the Great Migration, died Wednesday at his Drexel Boulevard home.
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