Atlanta Black Star on MSN

‘We’re Not Intimidated No More!’: North Carolina Plantation Descendants Will Not ‘Cower’ to ‘Disrespectful’ Mass Texts About Slavery After Donald Trump’s Election

The descendants of one of the largest plantations in North Carolina condemned the mass texts sent to Black Americans ...
Public Radio East

As Civil War History Center moves forward, professors take discussions about the war to local communities across the state

In Richlands, Civil War History Center Educational director, Dr. Michael McElreath and history professors from Appalachian State University and University of North Carolina - Wilmington led ...
insider.si.edu

Slavery in the North : forgetting history and recovering memory / Marc Howard Ross

"In 2002, we learned that President George Washington had eight (and, later, nine) enslaved Africans in his house while he lived in Philadelphia from 1790 to 1797. The house was only one block from ...
The New York Times

North Carolina Confederate Monument Goes Too Far, Lawsuit Says

A long battle over the pro-slavery words on a Tyrrell County statue intensifies as the Trump administration reclaims Confederate imagery. By Audra D. S. Burch Reporting from Columbia, N.C. The first ...
WLTX19

After a 15-year battle, Harvard agrees in settlement to relinquish early photos of slaves to SC museum

BOSTON, Massachusetts — Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history ...