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The city and reparations task force said researchers will conduct both original historical research and provide a comprehensive review of major themes and findings on the City’s history from 1620 to the present in a written report.
The City of Boston has announced the members of two teams of people who will work to research and document the city's ties and role in slavery as part of the...
The W.E.B. Du Bois Center for Freedom and Democracy hires an executive director, elects emeritus and executive officers, and announces theme for 2024 season.
During Friday’s episode of Good Morning America, co-anchor Michael Strahan and his mother, Louise, visited Shankleville, Texas, with ABC News and the 10 Million Names Project to meet their long-lost cousins for the first time.
For many Black Americans, tracing one’s family roots back more than 150 years has been nearly impossible due to a lack of adequate data and documentation from the slavery period. Now, a team of researchers, genealogists and scholars are working together to recover and restore this lost history, which is American history. ABC News is the exclusive media partner of the historic 10 Million Names Project, an ambitious moon shot initiative that aims to recover the names of the 10 million people of African descent who were enslaved before 1865 in the present-day United States.