Instead of using the secret routes along the Underground Railroad to find freedom in the North, thousands of enslaved Black people fled to free Black communities in Southern slaveholding states.
Parents and activists who support transgender rights rally before a school board meeting on Aug. 10, 2021, in Ashburn, Virginia.
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The ongoing debate over transgender rights in rural America frames transness as a nascent movement, ignoring a long undercurrent of transgender history that is all but forgotten.
Stacey Abrams speaks to supporters.
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Not all victories in the 2018 midterms were electoral.
Governor George Wallace stands defiant in an attempt to block the integration of the University of Alabama, June 11, 1963.
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