descendants

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When the lawsuit was filed in 2024, Evanston had approved payments to 141 residents or descendants who filed applications confirming that they identified as black.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 5, 2026

Thomas and Jackson are both descendants of enslaved Americans.

From Slate • Jul. 2, 2026

If there’s one constant in this country besides death and taxes, it’s how quickly descendants of immigrants, and sometimes immigrants themselves, forget how loathed their ethnic group was and how they proved the haters wrong.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2026

Widow’s Bay’s founders damned themselves and all their descendants by burying their iniquity instead of living with it long enough to dispel it and learn from that mistake.

From Salon • Jun. 18, 2026

Some of these traumatized common people, and their descendants became the settlers who would cross a vast ocean, drawn by the promise of their own land and higher status.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz