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Wrecked buildings in Los Angeles' South Central district following 1992 riots

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The 1992 LA riots. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Traditional Kente cloth from Ghana (Photo by Dreamstime)

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A new view of Africa’s past. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hungarian Jews arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1944

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Editor’s pick9 top articles from the BBC World Histories archive to read right now

Emma Dabiri in conversation about her book 'Don't Touch My Hair'

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"Afro-textured hair had no stigma before the dehumanisation of black people that emerged from slavery": Emma Dabiri discusses the changing perceptions of Afro-textured hair. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How William Shakespeare shaped America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rosa Parks (right) riding on a bus following the Supremacial segregation on Montgomery's public transit system. (Photo by Don Cravens/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images)

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History heroGabby Logan chooses Rosa Parks (1913–2005). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Madam CJ Walker, America's first female millionaire. (Photo courtesy of Madam Walker Family Archives/A'Lelia Bundles)

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Self Made: the real story of Madam CJ Walker, America’s first black female millionaire

"We cannot walk alone": 26 August 1963 – As they hold hands, Martin Luther King Jr and the other leaders of the March On Washington For Jobs And Freedom make history. (Photo by Robert W. Kelley/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)

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The story of Martin Luther King's struggle for civil rights in America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Hidden Figures: the incredible real history behind the film. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Black rights activist Malcolm X

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Malcolm X: Activism, assassination and how he predicted his own death

Confronting evils.

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Confronting evils. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Windrush generation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Mixed-race babies born after the Second World War

Rosa Parks rides an integrated bus

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From Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King: the boycott that inspired the dream

Members of the Ku Klux Klan march down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC in 1925. The Klan of this era was a terrorist group in the precise meaning of that term, says Linda Gordon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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When the Ku Klux Klan was a mass movement

A British officer stands alongside two of his Japanese counterparts in 1914 in Tsingtao (now Qingdao). Japanese troops played a key role in the capture of that strategic German concession in north-east China. (Photo by Getty Images)

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First World War: beyond the western front. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Davide Bonazzi

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The big questionShould museums return their treasures?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Haiti slave revolt. (Image by Getty)

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Slave revolt. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Why black hair matters. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My history heroTracy Austin chooses Arthur Ashe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Anna WhitelockConfronting slavery’s legacy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Passengers reading a newspaper while waiting to disembark from the 'Empire Windrush' at Tilbury, having sailed from Jamaica, taken by an unknown photographer for the Daily Herald newspaper, 21 June 1948. "The Windrush scandal would have been inconceivable if we knew that those we are deporting not only helped to build the welfare state but were either born as, or to subjects of, the British state", says Professor Kehinde Andrews. (Photo by Daily Herald Archive/SSPL/Getty Images)

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Do we need to decolonise history? And if so, how?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle. (Image Credit: BBC/Douglas Road Productions/Carlton Dixon)

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“A platform to ask ‘was it really like that?’”: Sir Lenny Henry on new Windrush drama

Olivette Otele and Sadiah Quresh.

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Diversity in history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (L) fights Dick Tiger (R) in Madison Square Garden, New York, 1965 (Photo by Getty Images)

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The bronze statue in Washington DC celebrating Abraham Lincoln's emancipation of slaves shows the 16th president standing over a shackled African American. Lincoln is "one of the towering figures in the story that Americans tell about themselves," writes Lucy Worsley. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Lincoln and slavery: "If I could save the union without freeing any slave, I would"

Malcolm X speaking at a rally, 29 June 1963.(Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images)

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Black radicalism with Kehinde Andrews. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My favourite place: Jamaica

Rags and riches: Enslaved people wash diamonds in Brazil, guarded by armed overseers, in a German engraving of 1828. Diamonds were discovered in Minas Gerais state in the late 17th century. (Picture by Alamy)

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Brazil: a society shaped by slavery. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor visited the US on several occasions, where he was held in such high regard that he was dubbed the 'African Mahler'. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

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