“We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe,” a documentary by filmmaker Fred Kudjo Kuwornu, seeks to correct this omission. The film, which screens at UC Santa Barbara’s ...

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While the U.S. admitted upward of 225,000 European refugees between ... story with barnacles or sanitize our history into a … feel-good story.” In the documentary, historian Nell Irvin Painter ...

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