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Bans on ‘Black Pete’ Spark Debate in the Netherlands – The Wilmington Journal

Global protests against racial injustice have intensified debate in the Netherlands over whether Zwarte Piet, or Black Pete, a winter holiday character known as the black companion of Sinterklaas - Saint Nicholas - is a [...]

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American dancer, choreographer, and scholar. She was a pioneer in the use of folk and ethnic choreography, and considered one of the founders of the anthropological dance movement. With Aida in 1963, she became the first Black to choreograph for the Metropolitan Opera in New York city.

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First fugitive slave law enacted by Congress

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Cinque kidnapped

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Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman, dies.

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John Brown was an abolitionist whomtook direct action to free slaves by force.

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Norbert Rillieux, an instructor of applied mechanicsat L'Ecole Centrale in Par

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