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What Difference Does it Make?

What Difference Does it Make?

Black HistoryUnpaid Labor ContributionJuly 25, 2016Benghazi, black history, Hillary Clinton, racial disparity

A Prince By Any Other Name (1774-1829)

A Prince By Any Other Name (1774-1829)

Black HistoryUnpaid Labor ContributionJuly 10, 2016black history, Cotton, economics, Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, Mississippi, Prince

History That Heals

History That Heals

Black HistoryUnpaid Labor ContributionJuly 8, 2016black history, Harry L- Watson, James Brewer Stewart, Peter Wood, Scott Hancock, Van E- Gosse

Whiskey, Food, and Unpaid Labor

Whiskey, Food, and Unpaid Labor

Black HistoryUnpaid Labor ContributionJuly 6, 2016black history, Culinary History, Jack Daniels, Michael Twitty, Nearis Green, PBS Newshour

Juneteenth is Coming!

Black HistoryUnpaid Labor ContributionJune 16, 2016black history, civil war, Confederate States of America, Emancipation Proclamation, President Abraham Lincoln, President Barack Obama, The American Civil War

Roots, Snoop Dogg, and Unpaid Labor

Black HistoryUnpaid Labor ContributionJune 9, 201612 Years a Slave, black history, Roots, Snoop Dogg, The New York Times, Underground

Roots, Roots 2016, and Memorial Day

Black HistoryUnpaid Labor ContributionMay 27, 2016Abraham Lincoln, black history, civil war, George Washington, Memorial Day, Roots

Georgetown University, 272 Slaves Sold, and the Making of a Nation

Black HistoryUnpaid Labor ContributionMay 20, 2016Adam Roth, black history, Georgetown University, Rachell L- Swarns, Richard J- Cellini

Unpaid Labor, George Washington, and the Revolutionary War

Black HistoryUnpaid Labor ContributionMay 11, 2016black history, General George Washington, Peter Salem, revolutionary war, Salem Poor, Soldiers, the 1st Rhode Island

Yale University, John C. Calhoun, President Peter Salovey, and Slavery

Black HistoryUnpaid Labor ContributionMay 3, 2016black history, Calhoun College, Ebony & Ivy, John C- Calhoun, President Peter Salovey, Yale

Unpaid Labor honors Harriet Tubman

Black HistoryUnpaid Labor ContributionApril 26, 2016$20 bill, black history, Martha Washington, The Civil War, the economy, U-S- Presidents owned slaves

The U.S. Paid $1 Million to Free Slaves

Black HistoryUnpaid Labor ContributionApril 18, 20161862, April 16, black history, IRS, politics, Tax day, The Compensated Emancipation Act

What does Unpaid Labor have to do with the Tax Deadline?

Black HistoryUnpaid Labor ContributionApril 12, 2016Abraham Lincoln, black history, Compensated Emancipation Act, economics, Emancipation Proclamation, slavery, Tax day

UNDERGROUND on WGN America

Black HistoryUnpaid Labor ContributionApril 2, 2016black history, KingCotton, MishaGreen, NationalUndergroundRailroadFreedomCenter, OhioRiver, wgnAmerica

So tell me - What did Black people contribute to America?

Black HistoryUnpaid Labor ContributionMarch 24, 2016America, black history, Civil Rights Movement, history, nation, slavery