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40 Acres Given to 1200 Former Chattel Slaves, Then Taken Away

By Mary Alice MillerMost Black Americans have heard that after the Civil War, former...
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How Benjamin ‘Pap’ Singleton Led an Exodus of Freed Black Americans West

Farrell Evans, history.com During the late 1870s and early 1880s, as many as 40,000 African...
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New York City’s Infamous Civil War Draft Riots

by Suzanne SpellenThere is nothing more frightening than a mob, nothing more uncontrollable than...

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“In the Mix: Veggie Power” by Dr. Gerry Baker

(A Story of Community, Nutrition, and Inclusion for Children of All Ages)  - By Yvette Moore Lessons...
Events

One Brooklyn Health to Host Free Family Health Fair at Interfaith Campus 

BROOKLYN, NY — One Brooklyn Health (OBH) invites Brooklyn residents to attend the OBH Interfaith Campus Family Health...
Black History

“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

Occasion: Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, was asked to give an address regarding the...
Black History

Scholars Angela Y. Davis and Jelani Cobb Gift Wisdom and Inspire Intergenerational Reflections at BPL’s Kahn Humanities Event

In a milestone recognition of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United...