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Dangerous Cities In Arkansas 2024 – Safety Rules and Tips To Know
Exploring Wisconsin’s Wealth: Unveiling the 5 Richest Cities of 2024 and What Sets Them Apart
Prominent Kremlin Propagandist Threatens Nuclear Strike on US Territory Amid Russia-Ukraine Tensions
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128 Democrats Break Ranks and Help GOP Block Shocking Impeachment Attempt Against Trump
Miami Horror: Man Pushes Woman Into River, Leaves Her Critically Injured – Police Make Quick Arrest
Jeff Bezos’ Wedding Invite Goes Viral for All the Wrong Reasons – Fans Call It Embarrassing
Trump Claims Peace Between Israel and Iran—But Iran’s Cold Response Says Something Else Entirely
Total Meltdown at Fenway: Red Sox Manager and Star Player Thrown Out in Heated Clash with Umpire
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Sen. Sherrod Brown To Cosponsor Bipartisan Legislation To Extend Title 42
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In bitter cold, here how to protect yourself and loved ones from hypothermia and carbon monoxide poisoning
Navigating Aging: The LGBTQ+ community relives old traumas as they face aging on their own
Congressman Morgan McGarvey introduces bill aimed at helping veterans access healthcare innovations
Two surveys show food insecurity among Kentuckians is on the rise, over 460,000 affected
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Trump’s sentencing in hush money case set for January 10
Legislation proposed by Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran aims to recalculate SSI for individuals with disabilities
Ashley Moody, Florida Attorney General, Takes Charge in Confirming Pam Bondi as U.S. Attorney General
Tennessee Senator criticizes ‘woefully inexperienced’ Biden officials while supporting Trump’s FBI pick
Rand Paul says Trump’s plan to use the military for mass deportation is ‘illegal’
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Wikimedia Commons/Deisenbe Fort Mose Fort Mose became the first free Black settlement in what is now the United States in 1738. Spanish officials named...
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Wikimedia Commons/Harper's Weekly Freedman’s Village in Arlington, Virginia The U.S. government built Freedman’s Village in June 1863 on land taken from Confederate General Robert...
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Wikimedia Commons The 1865 Freedmen’s Town Settlement at Buffalo Bayou Freedmen’s Town began in 1865 after slaves in Texas learned they were free. About...
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Southern plantation owners lost more slaves at this famous waterfall than anywhere else in the North
Wikimedia Commons/Charles R. Parsons The Underground Railroad Route Through Niagara Falls Niagara Falls stood between slavery and freedom for thousands of African Americans from...
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Shutterstock Historic Stagville Three generations of the Bennehan family turned a small tobacco farm into North Carolina’s largest plantation empire. By the 1860s, Stagville...
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Wikimedia Commons/Oklahoma Historical Society Boley, Oklahoma Boley began in August 1903 on land owned by Creek Freedwoman Abigail Barnett. T.M. Haynes, a Black farmer...
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Wikimedia Commons/Timothy H. O'Sullivan The Combahee Ferry Raid, South Carolina Three gunboats slipped up the dark Combahee River on June 2, 1863. Commanding one...
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Shutterstock Camp Nelson, Kentucky This camp started simple enough. The Union needed a supply hub, so they built one along the Kentucky River. Nobody...
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Shutterstock Houmas House Plantation There’s no sugar-coating this: Houmas House was once America’s biggest sugar plantation, powered by enslaved labor. Today it’s serving a...