A colorized engraving depicts enslavers selling enslaved people in the 19th-century South. Corbis via Getty Images
by Trevon Logan, The Ohio State University
As the United States...
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Commemorates 50th Anniversary of Civil Rights Act by Signing New Law at Chicago’s Oldest African American Church
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2013 was a busy year for the Illinois legislature. While two of their most headline-grabbing achievements -- pension reform legislation and the marriage equality...
