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'It Honors Millions of Ancestors': Watch Artist Kara Walker Build a Mobile Musical Monument to Enslaved People

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‘It Honors Millions of Ancestors’: Watch Artist Kara Walker Build a Mobile Musical Monument to Enslaved People

4 days ago

The Enslaved Artist Whose Pottery Was an Act of Resistance

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The Enslaved Artist Whose Pottery Was an Act of Resistance

11 months ago

5/31/1977-Cambridge, MA- Photographs of American slaves, possibly the oldest known in the country, have been discovered in the basement of a Harvard University museum. Among the previously unpublished daguerreotypes discovered are these (L-R): a Congo slave named Renty, who lived on B.F. Taylor's plantation,

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Harvard Can Keep Daguerreotypes Depicting Enslaved Africans, Despite Objections From One of the Subject’s Ancestors, a Court Has Ruled

March 5, 2021

Anonymous, York (2010/2021). Photo courtesy of the artist.

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A Mystery Artist Installed a Much-Discussed Statue of an Enslaved 19th-Century Explorer in Portland. He Tells Us Why—and How—He Did It

February 24, 2021

Boston Removes Statue of Formerly Enslaved Man Kneeling Before Lincoln

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Boston Removes Statue of Formerly Enslaved Man Kneeling Before Lincoln

December 29, 2020