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Did Jamie Foxx Say How ‘Great’ It Is He ‘Kills All the White People' in a Movie?

Written by:
Nur Ibrahim
Aug 7, 2023 The actor’s "Saturday Night Live" monologue from 2012 went viral again in August 2023 after he f ...
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Was Memorial Day Created By Former Slaves to Honor Union War Dead?

Written by:
David Mikkelson
May 27, 2013 One legend associated with the creation of Memorial Day holds that it was started by former slav ...
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Old joke postcard showing a black child getting bitten by an alligator.

Were Black Children Used as Alligator Bait in the American South?

Written by:
David Emery
Jun 9, 2017 Tales of youngsters chained up as "alligator bait" in the deep South of the 18th and early 19th ...
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Were There Irish Slaves in America, Too?

Written by:
David Emery
Sep 23, 2016 Questionable sources maintain that the plight of so-called "Irish slaves" in early America was w ...
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The word "False" is over a screenshot of a Twitter post that says, "The phrase “knocked up,” referring to pregnancy, originated with U.S. slavery. The Oxford English Dictionary traces the expression back to 1813. Back then the price of enslaved African women was “knocked up” by the auctioneer when she was pregnant—promoted as a deal for buyers."

No, the Phrase 'Knocked Up' Didn't Originate with Slavery

Written by:
Izz Scott LaMagdeleine
Feb 11, 2023 The earliest known usage of the term comes from a diary entry about a widow.
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Is San Francisco Considering Plan To Give $5M to Each Eligible Black Person for Reparations?

Written by:
Nur Ibrahim
Jan 17, 2023 Racial inequality and injustice have long been a part of the city’s history.
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Did Dems Oppose 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments That Gave Freedom, Voting Rights to Slaves?

Written by:
Nur Ibrahim
Nov 7, 2022 It's all but impossible to capture the complexities of history in a meme.
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Were 'Cakewalks' Dances Performed by Black Slaves on Plantations?

Written by:
Jessica Lee
Feb 19, 2022 Several readers asked us if the word — which is often used to describe something that's easy to ...
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A rumor claimed that Black slaves used cornrows to make maps and share information to help slaves escape to the North.

Did Maps in Cornrows Help Black Slaves Escape Slavery?

Written by:
Jordan Liles
Feb 17, 2022 A rumor on Facebook claimed that Black slaves would create maps in cornrows to help others escap ...
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Person, Human, Drawing

Were Some Slave Owners Paid Reparations by US Government When Slavery Ended?

Written by:
Madison Dapcevich
Jun 20, 2021 Reportedly, each former slave owner in the District of Columbia was paid $300 — the equivalent o ...
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Did Florida State Rep. Kimberly Daniels Once Say, 'I Thank God for Slavery'?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Jan 2, 2019 The Jacksonville Democrat's pronouncements as a preacher came under intense scrutiny in 2018.
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Did Michele Bachmann Say 'Kanye is Right' and Slavery was 'a Choice'?

Written by:
Kim LaCapria
May 2, 2018 A phony quote from the former U.S. representative circulated after the musician made controversi ...
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Image of KKK from 1920.

Was the NRA Founded to Protect Black People from the Ku Klux Klan?

Written by:
David Emery
Mar 28, 2018 Revisionist accounts of the origin of the National Rifle Association say it was formed to help f ...
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Did a Vermont Woman Post a Joke About Trump 'Bringing Back Slavery'?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Jan 25, 2018 Heather Wick faced an online backlash after a racially insensitive Facebook post in 2017, and ag ...
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Roy Moore

Controversial Roy Moore Remarks on Slavery Resurface on Social Media

Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Dec 8, 2017 The Alabama politician once again became a topic of debate just days before the end of a high-pr ...
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Do These Photographs Depict the Libyan Slave Trade?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Nov 28, 2017 An emotive Facebook post about the slave trade in Libya used photographs that were either unrela ...
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Does the California NAACP Want to Replace the National Anthem?

Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Nov 8, 2017 The group has proposed state legislation aimed at replacing "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the na ...
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Andrew Jackson, by Thomas Sully, 1845, American painting, oil on canvas

President Trump: Andrew Jackson Could Have Prevented the Civil War

Written by:
David Emery
May 1, 2017 Does Trump's suggestion that Andrew Jackson could have stopped the Civil War have any basis in h ...
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Did Ben Carson Liken Slavery to Immigration?

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David Mikkelson Bethania Palma
Mar 6, 2017 The retired neurosurgeon and former presidential candidate made a controversial comment about im ...
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Obama-Led U.N. Has Just Made It Official, U.S. to Immediately Pay Blacks 'Reparations'

Written by:
David Emery
Dec 20, 2016 Untrustworthy web sites reported that at President Obama's behest, the United Nations ordered th ...
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