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A phone call from a stranger would link a Connecticut woman with ancestors enslaved before the American Revolution — and reshape her view of patriotism.
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There’s a deeply-rooted perception that the North was home to the “good guys,” the abolitionists. The truth is far different.
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David Jon Walker is the eye behind the fabrics, printings and typography of the New Haven Museum’s newest exhibit on slavery in New Haven and Yale. He shares how his experience as a Yale student and his long African-American history lineage informed his work.
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There are more records to dig through that could shed more light on the lives of those laid to rest in what’s now known as Spruce Bank Cemetery.
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Hundreds of Indians and their French allies raided the western Massachusetts outpost in Deerfield on February 29, 1704. Author James Swanson's new book chronicles that fight, and the fate of "The Old Indian Door" that held back Native Americans wielding tomahawks on that fateful night.
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The exhibit, which is free to all visitors and hosted by Yale University at the New Haven Museum, explores how slavery and resistance to it have shaped both Yale and New Haven.
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An exhibit from the organization Ancestral Bridges foundation at Amherst College features stories and artifacts of Black and Afro-Indigenous families who lived and worked in Amherst during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Constance Baker Motley won nine of her ten U.S. Supreme Court cases. The tenth was later overturned in her favor. Motley is now being featured on the 47th U.S. Postal Service Black Heritage stamp.
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Springfield has been celebrating Black History Month with a flag raising on Feb. 1 for the past 38 years.
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A trusted advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr. believes he loved America more than America loved him. But Clarence B. Jones says King's dedication to love is his legacy.