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The International African American Museum will soon open in Charleston, South Carolina, at one of the country's most historically significant slave-trading ports. Overlooking the sacred site of Gadsden's Wharf, at which an estimated 45% of enslaved Africans entered America, the museum houses exhibits and artifacts exploring how African Americans' labor and resistance shaped the Carolinas, the nation and the world. It also includes a genealogy research center to help families trace their ancestors from their arrival on American soil. More than 23 years in the making, the museum had been originally set to open in 2020, but was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, as well as issues in the supply chain of materials needed to complete construction.

In honor of Veterans Day, a group of Democratic lawmakers is reviving an effort to pay the families of Black veterans who fought on behalf of the nation during World War II for benefits they were denied or prevented from taking full advantage of when they returned home from war. Legislation being introduced in the House and Senate would benefit surviving spouses and all living descendants of Black WWII veterans whose families were denied the opportunity to build wealth with housing and educational benefits through the GI Bill.