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National Zoo celebrates African-American community

The National Zoo commemorated the African-American community on Monday for a tradition that dates back to 1891.

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New black history museum rising on National Mall

Frederick Douglass was black and that was enough for the Smithsonian Institution to bar the famed abolitionist from speaking at a lecture series intended to convince President Abraham Lincoln that he should end slavery as war divided the nation in February 1862.

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