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Reading of the Declaration of Independence at the National Archives

4 years ago Feature

As we celebrate American History this week, PalacioMagazine.com will feature a daily tribute to the history that defines who we are as a nation. July 4th, 2012 at the National Archives: Dramatic Reading of the Declaration of Independence. Photo by hyku

American History

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Full Opening Statement on Reparations

4 years ago Feature

As we celebrate American History this week, PalacioMagazine.com will feature a daily tribute to the history that defines who we are as a nation. “Author Ta-Nehisi Coates told lawmakers at a House committee hearing that the debate over reparations is “a dilemma of inheritance.” Coates called out Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for saying a…

American History: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

4 years ago Feature

As we celebrate American History this week, PalacioMagazine.com will feature a daily tribute to the history that defines who we are as a nation. “In “They Were Her Property”, historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers has written a book that bridges women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history. Rather than land, women typically…

American History

American History: Immigrants at Ellis Island

4 years ago Feature

As we celebrate American History this week, PalacioMagazine.com will feature a daily tribute to the history that defines who we are as a nation. From the History Channel: “An estimated 40% of Americans are descended from people who passed through the Ellis Island immigration station during its six decades of operation. But what was the…

PBS NewsHour

Reparations and why America’s past still shapes the present

4 years ago PBS NewsHour

“A House subcommittee held hearings Wednesday morning to discuss paying reparations to African Americans for slavery. The idea is shaping up to be an issue with some of the candidates running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, too. Novelist Sarah Blake has considered why past attempts to secure reparations failed, and she shares her humble…

PBS NewsHour

How discovery of the slave ship Clotilda informs U.S. history

4 years ago PBS NewsHour

“The remains of the last slave ship that came to America have been found. In 1860, the schooner Clotilda brought 110 Africans to U.S. shores, decades after it was illegal to import slaves into the country. The wreckage of the boat was discovered in Alabama’s Mobile River. Megan Thompson reports on the search for Clotilda,…

PBS NewsHour

How the autobiography of a Muslim slave is challenging an American narrative

4 years ago PBS NewsHour

“Omar Ibn Said was 37 years old when he was taken from his West African home and transported to Charleston, South Carolina, as a slave in the 1800s. Now, his one-of-a-kind autobiographical manuscript has been translated from its original Arabic and housed at the Library of Congress, where it “annihilates” the conventional narrative of African…

TEDx

Stories in Stone: Newport’s African Burying Ground

4 years ago TEDx

From Newport, Rhode Island: “When people think of early African American history and the slave trade, they don’t think of New England or Newport,” says historian, Keith Stokes. “Before the American Revolution, Newport was the largest slave-trading port in British North America and about a third of the entire population of Newport were enslaved and…

Voices in My Head

National Geographic Presents “America Inside Out – White Anxiety”

5 years ago Voices In My Head

I came across this video hosted by Katie Couric who “traveled to rural and Rust Belt America to examine the real roots of anger and frustration among America’s white working class.” This is as relevant today as when Trump was elected but it is not the full story of America. If you think it was…

Democracy Now

From Democracy Now: New Memorial Honors Victims of White Supremacy

5 years ago Democracy Now

“The National Memorial for Peace and Justice opened last week in Montgomery, Alabama—a monument to victims of white supremacy in the United States. The memorial’s centerpiece is a walkway with 800 weathered steel pillars overhead, each of them naming a U.S. county and the people who were lynched there by white mobs. In addition to…

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