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Launched in 2015, Black Mail is your source for lesser-known black history facts. We celebrate history makers, movements, and moments that have shaped our world.

7/22/15 Carter G. Woodson Quote

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The History Behind “40 Acres & A Mule”

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In 1865, General George Sherman gave orders that lands confiscated from confederate landowners during the civil war be re-assigned to…