Kate Shuster, Southern Poverty Law Center [dropcap]Schools[/dropcap] are not adequately teaching the history of American slavery, educators are not sufficiently prepared to teach it, textbooks do not have enough material about it, and – as a result – students lack a basic knowledge of the important role it played in shaping the United States and […]
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BHM: “Ain’t I A Woman?” The Life and Legacy of Abolitionist and Activist Sojourner Truth | Good Black News
Lori Lakin Hutcherson, Good Black News UNITED STATES – CIRCA 1939: African American Evicted sharecropper, New Madrid County, Missouri (Photo by Buyenlarge/Getty Images). Featured Image [dropcap]It’s[/dropcap] February 1st, which means it is now officially Black History Month! Although we here at Good Black News celebrate the achievements of Black people every day of the year, […]
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Frederick Douglass died Feb. 20, 1895, just hours after his public makeup with Susan B. Anthony | The Washington Post
Steve Hendrix, The Washington Post A deathbed portrait of Frederick Douglass, taken at his home in February 1895. (National Park Service) (unknown/National Park Service). Featured Image [dropcap]When[/dropcap] Frederick Douglass got home on the evening of Feb. 20, 1895, he was energized. A voluble storyteller prone to imitating his characters, the great man walked through the […]
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America doesn’t need another apology for slavery, but atonement | Dallas News
Joyce King, Contributor, Dallas News [dropcap]Black[/dropcap] History Month, 2019, has been a sobering reality check for millions of white Americans who are expressing shock and outrage at everything from elected officials donning blackface to a beloved movie star’s admission he once wanted to take revenge on a random black man. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] America does not […]
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University of Glasgow Commits to Pay Reparations for Profiting From African Enslavement, Providing A Model for Others to Follow | Atlanta Black Star
David Love, Atlanta Black Star The University of Glasgow has announced it made £200 million ($255 million) from the transatlantic slave trade according to a comprehensive report, and because of that, will make reparations through a “reparative justice program” and by establishing ties with the University of the West Indies. (Photo: National Library of Jamaica.). […]
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Flint Launches Program to Help Kids Who Need Special Education Services Because of Water Crisis | Colorlines
Experts say it’s a step in the right direction, but not enough.
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The Transatlantic Slave Trade: 500 Years Later the Diaspora Still Suffers | AFRO
“The Transatlantic slave trade … for 400 years deprived Africa of its lifeblood for centuries and transformed the world forever.”
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From Slavery to Civil Rights and Environmental Racism | The Washington Informer
Decades ago, civil rights leader Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., who now serves a president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, coined the term “environmental racism.” It not only proved a true term, but it also linked several eras to a present day that still harkens back to centuries of demeaning and demoralization of Black Americans since the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade 500 years ago.
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The ‘slave block’ in a town in Virginia: should it stay or should it go? | The Guardian
A onetime site of slave sales in Fredericksburg has provoked a fierce debate. This is not a monument, it’s a piece of history – but should it be removed from view?
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Sold on the Courthouse Steps | International African American Museum (IAAM)
An auction block at a commercial slave market is probably the most common visual that comes to mind when you think of people being separated from families during enslavement.
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