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The remains, used in the 19th century as part of now discredited racial science, are being laid to rest on Saturday in a ...
After 155 years, the remains of Black New Orleanians, used in a racially based German medical research, are being sent home.
The couple wed just six hours after Charlotte arrived in the UK from Germany. It has been claimed that Charlotte was a descendant of a Black branch of the Portuguese royal family. The theory was ...
Queen Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, a small northern German ... royal house. As proof of her African ancestry, Valdes explains that art historians believe the Black magi featured ...
Germany’s Black minority was already marginalized because of the Great Depression in 1929. But the racist nature of Nazi rule that came in 1933 added to that hardship.
Germany's Black community faced marginalization and persecution under Nazi rule, enduring racist policies, forced sterilizations, and loss of opportunities. Historians and activists are working to ...
But for Germany’s black community, gaining recognition for the crimes and abuses it endured has not been easy. Historian Robbie Aitken, based at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK, has studied ...