On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments about whether Texas was wrong to reject specialty vehicle license plates displaying the Confederate flag, the emblem…
State Rep. Tyrone Brooks, D-Atlanta (pictured), is proposing that the state of Georgia adopt a resolution that formally apologizes for the unjust institution of slavery as…
Pennsylvania newspaper The Lancaster New Era issued an apology, after running a nationally syndicated cartoon that compared commercial airplane seating to the horrifically crowded and…
Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, is a holiday of notable significance for many African Americans. June 19, 1865, highlights the abolition…
The historic Bradshaw Cemetery in Houston, Texas was bulldozed without its owners consent and now the family is searching for answers. Bradshaw, a cemetery dating back to…
As the world mobilizes to safely bring home 276 Nigerian girls who were kidnapped from their school in Chibok, Nigeria on April 14, the subject…
It began some fifteen years ago, in 1998. The first “experience” of its kind in the country where individuals could experience what it was like to journal along the Underground Railroad in the 1830’s in Indiana. A state that contained several major Underground Railroad routes to freedom for freed slaves. Officials from Connor Prairie, the […]
The topic of slavery has become quite the buzzword of late, considering the releases of high-profile Hollywood dramas such as “Django Unchained” and “12 Years…
Fourteen Caribbean countries have filed lawsuits against the European countries that colonized them, seeking reparations for slavery, Al-Jazeera America reports. SEE ALSO: 81-Year-Old Has A…
It’s called sex trafficking. Child prostitution. Young girls, not just teens, but younger than teens lured into prostitution and worse. It’s a world wide problem. It’s modern day slavery. But its not just a problem among Europeans and Asians. It’s a problem that strikes at home, in many African-American communities across the country. Maybe even […]
The Prime Minister of Jamaica, Portia Simpson-Miller, addressed the need for an apology from Britain from Britain over slavery in Jamaica. She also talked about…
A letter from a former slave, Jourdan Anderson to the man who owned him, Colonel P.H. Anderson in 1865 has drawn a lot of attention was posted on several sites and even became the top story at Yahoo News. In the letter Jourdan Anderson offers a smart retort to P.H. Anderson’s request that he come […]
