Tag: African slaves
Door of No Return: Yellen visits Onetime Slave-Trading Post
By FATIMA HUSSEIN, Associated Press
GOREE ISLAND, Senegal (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen paid a solemn visit Saturday to the salmon-colored house on an...
The Most Overlooked Music Venue in America
By David Wilfong, North Dallas Gazette Contributing Writer
Music has a history. Choose your favorite artist, and chances are you can find the subtle hints...
Plans to Unveil a Bust of Marcus Garvey in Ethiopia Revealed
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once called Marcus Garvey the first “man on a mass scale...
OP-ED: Celebrating the Journey of Black Music and its impact on American Culture
By H. Beecher Hicks, III, President & CEO of the National Museum of African American Music
Lately, the phrase ‘unprecedented times’ is so widely used...