Tag: Enslavement
SPEAKING OF REPARATIONS
By Oscar Blayton
To many Americans, “reparations” is a dirty word when applied to Black folks.
Numerous obstacles are thrown up, like so many stone walls...
Juneteenth Celebrates Just One of the United States’ 20 Emancipation Days
By Kris Manjapra, Tufts University
The actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first heard the...
Ward Connerly Resurfaces to Oppose Reparations for Black Californians
By Antonio Ray Harvey, California Black Media
During the early 1990s, Ward Connerly, then-President of the California Civil Rights Initiative Campaign, was the leading African...
Rare copy of first novel by African American woman donated
By Associated Press
A rare version of a book considered the first novel published in the U.S. by a Black woman has returned to her...
Historic Coretta Scott home where she wed MLK now forgotten
By Jay Reeves, Associated Press
Bullet holes pock a rusted mailbox outside the vacant home where Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott were married...