NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 17 -- Vanderbilt University posted the following news: * * * History's detective: Jane Landers and her team rescue enslaved Africans' stories from oblivion The global trafficking of Africans was started by Portuguese traders in 1441, and by the time it was done in the early 1900s, nearly 30 million people had been trafficked or born into slavery in what we now know as the United States, according to Vanderbilt professor and historian Jane Landers. Their stories hav  more

WASHINGTON, April 18 (TNSFR) -- Turtle Bay Exploration Park (TBEP) in Redding, California, has announced plans to repatriate 113 cultural items under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). These items, which include stone tools, bone needles, turtle shell fragments, and animal bone pieces, were discovered near Big Lake and McArthur in Shasta County, California. The items are culturally affiliated with the Ajumawi Band, part of the Pit River Tribe. The collection w  more