Edmond Albius: The Boy Who Changed the Flavor of the World
At twelve, an enslaved boy developed a method that transformed vanilla cultivation. Recognition did not bring him a share of the wealth.
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Missing History
People, events and contributions that were forgotten, minimized or erased. These editorials recover the history that public memory too often leaves outside the room.
Black History Did Not Begin With Slavery
African nations, knowledge and cultures existed long before the transatlantic slave trade. That history belongs in the story.
Read EditorialThey Trusted Black Women With Their Babies. Just Not With Power.
The care and labor of Black women helped sustain America, while equal protection, fair pay and political power were withheld.
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The people and racial terror behind the constitutional promises of freedom, citizenship and voting rights.
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When Britain abolished slavery, compensation went to enslavers rather than the people they had enslaved.
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Who decides what classrooms, libraries and public memory preserve, and whose history gets left out?
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