Bass Reeves

This summer Walt Disney is set to release The Lone Ranger starring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer. The story, of course, is nothing new. The Lone Ranger today is an icon of the 20th century.

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Secret History

In an interview, author Craig Steve Wilder discusses how many major U.S. universities are drenched in the sweat and blood of people brought to the U.S. as slaves. The following content originally appeared on Democracy Now!:
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Shocking Record

The U.S. has not yet reckoned with the trauma of enslaved and oppressed women. Women did not exist at the dawn of colonial America. That is to say, from a legal perspective, they had no existence apart from their husbands'. They mostly couldn’t own property.
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