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Harambee! 8 Cities to check out Kwanzaa celebrations

December 27, 2019
Customs & Cultures/The Light Series

Started in 1966 by women members of the US Organization to teach children, Kwanzaa has spread into a winter holiday throughout the

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Jazz-soul group, Ranky Tanky keeps Gullah roots at the center of music

November 2, 2019
Ark Weekender/Arts & Culture

Pulling from a culture that sits at the center of American music, Ranky Tanky, a quintet from Charleston, South Carolina, pays homage

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Namesakes: AfricaTown, a 153 year-ago-old Alabama community founded to preserve West African cultural ties, becomes sister-city with another Africatown, an initiative to save Black Seattle

October 28, 2019
Gentrification/Major Collaborative Project

Africatown, two Black communities with the same name, located across the country from each other, face a similar challenge—involuntary out-migration.

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Ceremony to rebury old remains of Charleston’s early enslaved ancestors

April 7, 2019
Arts & Culture

In 2013, construction workers in Charleston unearthed the remains of 36 enslaved Black people. Six years later, the Gullah Society will hold

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US Customs officers on trial for ‘rape table’

December 6, 2017
Career & Retirement

“Rape table” at Terminal C in Newark Airport is a major crime scene in a federal court case involving three U.S. customs

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