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HBCUs Carry the Weight of History

By Fedrick C. Ingram, Word in black  In the city of Hampton, Virginia, there is an oak tree that has stood for over 200 years. It is known as Emancipation Oak. It gained its name because in 1863, that tree was the site where many enslaved people heard the reading of Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation — […]

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