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On Saturday, Feb. 10, WCSU General Manager Charles Fox will deliver a performance tracing his family legacy from Africa to a West Virginia slave plantation and finally to his birth home of Maryland.
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WYSO contributor Kathryn Mobley speaks with the current president of Wilberforce University about the institution's nearly 500 year history.
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Jordan Anderson was a freed slave living in Dayton, OH with his family after the Civil War. He was owned by a man named PH Anderson in Big Spring, Tennessee. After receiving a letter from his former slave master asking him to return, Anderson responded with a letter of his own. WYSO producer Basim Blunt talks to Dayton historian Dr. Larry Crowe about the famous Jordan Anderson letter.
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In this episode of The Race Project series, a conversation with two Yellow Springs residents, David Turner and Cheryl Smith, about the legacy of slavery in the United States.
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The Wesley Community Center’s annual Juneteenth festival in Dayton was cancelled this year due to COVID-19. But following the killing of George Floyd and…
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In the decades leading up to the Civil War, the Underground Railroad ferried enslaved African Americans in the South to freedom in the northern United…
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Members of the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus want references to slavery removed from the state's constitution.On Wednesday, the caucus announced a…