descendants

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Last week, Newsom signed Senate Bill 518, which will create a new office called the Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2025

Descendants of the reforming 19th-Century statesman William Gladstone apologised to the people of Guyana, in response to their family's links to slave ownership.

From BBC • Oct. 27, 2023

Payne, whose previous films include "Downsizing," "The Descendants" and "Election," said he wanted to tell an entertaining story that looks and feels like a movie made in 1970.

From Reuters • Oct. 11, 2023

By 2008, the Descendants of Olivewood had gained stewardship of the cemetery, and help from the surrounding community to maintain it.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2023

Descendants of the Siberians settled the thick forests of the eastern United States, the swamps of the Mississippi Delta, the deserts of Mexico and steaming jungles of Central America.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari