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Understanding the past is the key to building a better shared future, but where do we begin? A new series of videos, created in partnership with Google Arts & Culture, illuminates how systemic racism shows up in our lives and offers resources to help create change.

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We Shall Not Be Moved: Stories of Struggle from Barry Farm–Hillsdale

Explore the history of an historic African American community in Southeast Washington, D.C., and why this community no longer exists. Discover similar stories in other communities across the country.

Tulsa Race Massacre 100th Commemoration

Learn the story of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 that destroyed almost 40 blocks of a wealthy black neighborhood known as the "Black Wall Street."

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Black Life in Two Pandemics: Histories of Violence

This special series of blog posts from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History considers the long history of racial violence in the Midwest and its connections to the COVID-19 public health crisis and structural racism today.

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The Segregation of U.S. Cities Was Not Accidental

Major American cities tend to be organized in their own particular racial pattern: In Chicago, it’s a north/south divide. In Austin, it’s west/east.