slavery
Discussions about atonement for the enslavement of Black Americans have a long history in the United States, and efforts toward reparations for slavery and racial discrimination have moved forward in some places in recent years. In 2021, Evanston, Illinois, became the first U.S. city to create a reparations plan for its Black residents, and California that […]
24 March 2022 It is now universally understood and accepted that the transatlantic trade in enchained, enslaved Africans was the greatest crime against humanity committed in what is now defined as the modern era. In terms of its scale and its social, psychological, spiritual and physical brutality, specifically inflicted upon Africans as a targeted […]
Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington email A bill that could see Black Americans receive a $14 trillion slavery reparation scheme is being backed by a New York ‘Squad’ lawmaker. Jamaal . . .
Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington email A bill that could see Black Americans receive a $14 trillion slavery reparation scheme is being backed by a New York ‘Squad’ lawmaker. Jamaal . . .
Black and white Americans have vastly different views on the legacy of slavery in the U.S. and its effects on descendants of slaves, polling by YouGov finds. While about half of Americans think slavery continues to influence society at least a fair amount — and nearly half believe that Black Americans still face discrimination in […]
AUSTIN (KXAN) – Starting in 2024, the American Ornithological Society (AOS), the largest international group of its kind, will begin an initiative to rename some species of birds with English names found in the U.S. and Canada. The group said it is taking on the effort to “address past wrongs” in the naming process – […]
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis argued that Black people benefited from slavery when he was questioned about new standards for teaching Black history in his state. File Photo by Debbie Hill/UPI | License Photo July 23 (UPI) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis argued that Black people benefited from slavery when he was questioned about new standards […]
A team of UMass Amherst faculty, librarians, staff, and students and their partners at the Pioneer Valley History Network (PVHN) are among the partnering projects awarded $349,803 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in support of the project “Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade,” also known as Enslaved.org, which is an open-access […]
Listen to this article here LONDON–It’s not just the United States – the United Kingdom owes Black American descendants of slavery reparations, too. Our two histories are forever intertwined; both countries sit upon a brutal foundation drenched in the blood, sweat, tears of captive Africans and the generations that came after them. The privilege enjoyed […]
Published October 27, 2023 The opening day of the symposium celebrating the landmark work, “From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans,” by celebrated historian and Duke faculty emeritus John Hope Franklin, was held, aptly enough, on the campus of North Carolina Central University. The transcendent volume was published in 1947 while Franklin was […]