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In the third video honoring Nipsey Hussle, check out Velma Grant, the woman who helped create a new black neighborhood in Los Angeles in the 1940s.

Today marks the 157th anniversary since the first slaves were freed through federal legislation. On April 16, 1862 Washington D.C. witnessed emancipation!

In the first video of my Black History Month series I discuss how the Haitian Revolution opened the United States to western expansion and stimulated the internal slave trade, the largest forced migration in the United States.