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WATCH: GSU Investigating Whether Underground Vaults Housed Slaves

Posted 02.05.2013 | Black Voices
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A group of scientists hopes to find out whether five large underground vaults were used to house slaves. So far, they've found little more than pig an...

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A New Look Saved My Life

Jasmine Pollard | Posted 10.13.2012 | Impact
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Jasmine Pollard

A couple of years ago, I was what could be considered an at-risk youth. I say with raw honesty that had I not attended New Look all those years ago, I'm not sure that I would have realized that even back then, I needed to be a leader.

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MTV's $10,000 Challenge: Build Technology That Ends Human Slavery

Posted 02.01.2012 | Impact
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These days, technology has the capacity to change everything -- and mtvU is hoping the end of human slavery is within that reach. MTV's 24-hour col...

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Georgia Southern Student Finds Rare Confederate POW Camp Artifacts

AP | RUSS BYNUM | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
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SAVANNAH, Ga. — Preserved for nearly 150 years, perhaps by its own obscurity, a short-lived Confederate prison camp began yielding treasures fro...

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