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Black History
| Chris McNair, father of 1963 church bombing victim, dies |
| Tuesday, May 14, 2019 |
| BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Chris McNair, the father of one of four young girls killed in the 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church, died Wednesday. He was 93. His family confirmed his death Wednesday in a statement. McNair’s daughter Denise was one of four girls killed when a bomb placed by Ku Klux Klan members ripped through Birmingham’s |
| First black man to arrive in Canada was not a slave |
| Wednesday, May 1, 2019 |
| Although much of early North American history involves black men and women who were brought to America as slaves, the first black man in Canada was a free man named Mathieu da Costa. A talented translator who was fluent in six different languages, da Costa made a career as a translator for Europeans on exploratory and trading expeditions to North American |
