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State says it will replace Tubman marker with a more accurate one.

The methods could be a seachange for how Black Americans understand their genealogy.

We’ll go On the Record with historian David O. Stewart on Presidents Day. He traces George Washington’s skills as a political operator, as well as the first president’s failure to speak out against slavery as he came to realize its evils.

What would you do for your freedom?

We’ll go On the Record with award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson to ask what moved him as he researched the lives of the Maryland icons of freedom Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass and how he sees their legacies.

We’ll go On the Record with Towson University history professor Andrew Diemer, who traces the fight for rights for Black people through the 19th century. His book is "Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad."

What would you do for your freedom?

In a frank new memoir, the author and journalist reckons with a family legacy of slave ownership, and a life of white privelege.

We’ll go On the Record with the director and the historian behind a film that tells the story of the enslaved couple Mary and Daniel Bell, who fought in court for their family’s freedom, were thwarted, saw their children sold south, and were at last connected again.

The Pulitzer prize-winning author explores the meaning of Juneteenth to her own family and to generations of African Americans.