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It's Black History Month, here are some interesting places you may not know about:

Famous Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman spent time in South Jersey during her time of helping slaves escape to freedom.

Residents danced and chanted Wednesday in a community descended from runaway slaves in Rio de Janeiro as they welcomed the visiting monarch of the Bailundo kingdom in Angola where many of the residents trace their ancestry. King Tchongolola Tchongonga Ekuikui VI visited the community of Camorim as part of a trip to Brazil that began three weeks ago.

Here's our list of all the good stuff happening this coming week in the Cincinnati area.

Deploying that power against women. and the legal history here matters, because u.s. bounties against marginalized groups have a pretty ugly history. women's rights experts, like the lawyer who sued fox news' roger stone for harassment, was telling us how this scheme echoes the pre-civil war rules offering bounties for escaped slaves. >> it's much like the ku klux klan act, catching slaves in free states after the dred scott decision. bounty hunters were allowed to steal slaves back and bring them to the south. that's exactly what is happening here. it's not complex. >> so states use their pow...