1/19/2004: February is Black History Month. In North Dakota, the African American population has grown, though historically the numbers were few. But there have been African Americans in the state as long as there have been white people. Early records indicate that the earliest came as slaves of explorers and traders. In fact, the first non-Native born here was an African American baby.
Update 2:29 p.m. Jan. 26, 2014: Interstate 29 has been closed from the Canadian border to the South Dakota border, the North Dakota Department of Transportation has announced.
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