Addressing all the damage is going to take more than money — it’s going to take new laws and a deeper understanding of how our climate crisis came to fruition….
Over 95 universities are officially studying their ties to slavery. By Michela Moscufo, ABC News — Universities across the country are studying their relationship to slavery and are being called…
Newport launched more slave trading voyages than anywhere else on the continent. Local efforts and a state law now push students to learn that history. By Asher Lehrer-Small, The 74…
Often portrayed as an abolitionist, Hamilton may have enslaved people in his own household. By David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine — For Jessie Serfilippi, it was an eye-opening moment. As she…
By Oscar Blayton, San Diego Voice & Viewpoint — To many Americans, “reparations” is a dirty word when applied to Black folks. Numerous obstacles are thrown up, like so many…
By John Murawski, RealClearInvestigations — Georgetown University’s public atonement for its historical links to slavery has attracted special attention. Since the student newspaper jolted the campus in 2014 with accounts…
By Michael Harriot, TheGrio — On Sept. 30, 2020, 401 years after human traffickers landed in Virginia and sold Africans to English settlers, California lawmakers passed Assembly Bill 3121. The legislation…
Unraveling the characteristics of race today requires an understanding of history. By Jamelle Bouie, NYT — In my Jan. 29 newsletter, I wrote a little about the development of the…
These letters from Black Americans to the people who once controlled their lives show a desire for freedom and a desperate longing to be reunited with their families. By Gillian…
Scientists investigated whether genetic data collected from 50,000 volunteers lined up with historical shipping manifests. By Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine — A sweeping survey of more than 50,000 people’s DNA…
By Michael Burlingame, HNN — Six weeks after Lincoln’s death, Frederick Douglass described him as “emphatically the black man’s president, the first chief executive “to show any respect for the…
New books investigate the brutality of the internal slave trade by focusing on a single firm, Franklin and Armfield, and examine the role of white women in enslaving Black people….