Research teams from Northeastern University and Tufts University attended a Boston Task Force on Reparations meeting Feb. 6 to announce their research partnership examining Boston’s history and legacy of slavery. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu first announced the research teams Jan. 24 to document the city of Boston’s “role in and ties to the transatlantic slave.
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The City Council created the task force on reparations through a city ordinance in late 2022, with a directive to recommend a reparations program by the end of this calendar year.
The Ohio Valley History Conference, hosted at WKU, held a presentation titled “Stories and Silences: African American Family Histories After Emancipation” by Kendra Taira Field on Thursday, Oct. 26 in the Gary Ransdell Hall Auditorium. The conference is a “decades-old conference that invites historians from the Ohio Valley to gather, present their scholarship, and be.
NEWBURYPORT – Kerri Greenidge, author of “The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in An American Family,” will present the annual William Lloyd Garrison Lecture on Saturday, Dec. 9, at 7