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Charles Dew, one of America’s most respected historians of the South, will tell us about his powerful memoir -The Making of a Racist: A Southerner…
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Did you know that many of America’s Founding Fathers? who fought for liberty and justice for all ? were slave owners?Through the powerful stories of five…
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The founder of the Slave Dwelling Project will spend Friday night in an ancient cellar of a house on Historic Huguenot Street in New Paltz. His mission is…
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In our Ideas Matter segment we take time just about every week to check in with the state humanities councils in our 7-state region.Today we learn about…
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In celebration of Black History Month there is a new book by a University of Massachusetts professor that overturns long-held assumptions about the…
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In The Black Calhouns, Gail Lumet Buckley—daughter of actress Lena Horne—delves deep into her family history, detailing the experiences of an…
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Many people don't realize that slavery was widespread across the Americas, even in what is now the Northeastern U.S.A new exhibit at a state historic site…
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Over the Columbus Day holiday some local schoolgirls opted not to take a day off. They came away from a workshop having learned the most important lesson…
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The skeletal remains of more than a dozen 18th-century African-American slaves unearthed in upstate New York a decade ago will be reburied.The Times Union…
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New York is one of five states with the highest number of documented cases of human trafficking.Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery, a crime…