Greg Schneider, The Washington Post In this Monday, April 8, 2019 photo, the sword that is believed to have been carried by Nat Turner during his insurrection is seen in Courtland, Va. In 1831, a slave rebellion was led by Turner in Southampton County. He and and others from the insurrection were found guilty and […]
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The Dawn of American Slavery: A symbol of slavery — and survival | The Washington Post
Angela’s arrival in Jamestown in 1619 marked the beginning of a subjugation that left millions in chains
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A brief history of the enduring phony science that perpetuates white supremacy | The Washington Post
The mysterious and chronic sickness had been afflicting slaves for years, working its way into their minds and causing them to flee from their plantations. Unknown in medical literature, its troubling symptoms were familiar to masters and overseers, especially in the South, where hundreds of enslaved people ran from captivity every year. On March 12, […]
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The Bible was used to justify slavery. Then Africans made it their path to freedom. | The Washington Post
Julie Zauzmer, The Washington Post [dropcap]When[/dropcap] the Rev. Jaymes Robert Moody takes his pulpit to preach, sometimes he pictures the graveyard — that is where his congregation was born. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] It was called Georgia Cemetery, named, he has been told, for the place the enslaved were stolen from before being sent to work the […]
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World’s Largest Museum dedicated to Black Civilizations opens in Senegal | Shoppe Black
After 52 years of waiting, Senegal is finally opening what has been described as the largest museum of Black civilization in the capital, Dakar. With close to 14,000 square metres of floor space and capacity for 18,000 exhibits, the new Museums of Black Civilizations is already capable of competing with the National Museum of African […]
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The Viral Photograph that Has Come to Symbolize Sudan’s Uprising | Hyperallergic
The triumphant image of Alaa Salah, an engineering and architecture student, has “embodied the spirit of the opposition” led by Sudanese women.
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How African American folklore saved the cultural memory and history of slaves | The Conversation
Thurka Sangaramoorthy, The Conversation IVANCHINA ANNA/Shutterstock. Featured Image [dropcap]All[/dropcap] over the world, community stories, customs and beliefs have been passed down from generation to generation. This folkore is used by elders to teach family and friends about their collective cultural past. And for African Americans, folklore has played a particularly important part in documenting history […]
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Meet the woman who opened a library in Ghana with focus on Black writers | Check Out Africa.com
Ivor Moyo, Check Out Africa.com [dropcap]In[/dropcap] 2017, writer Sylvia Arthur packed up her belongings, including what remained of her personal library, and left London for Accra, the capital of Ghana, her parent’s home country. Driven out of the U.K. by the high cost of living and hostile political environment, she sought peace in West Africa. […]
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Only Surviving Arabic Slave Narrative Written in the United States Digitized by Library of Congress | Smithsonian Magazine
Omar Ibn Said, a wealthy intellectual from West Africa, wrote about his capture and enslavement in America
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Anthony Browder Makes History as the First African American to Lead and Fund an Archeological Excavation Project in Egypt | Los Angeles Sentinel
Sentinel News Service , Los Angeles Sentinel [dropcap]Washington[/dropcap] DC’s own, Anthony “Tony” Browder makes history as the first African American to lead and fund an archeological excavation project in Egypt. In May 2018, Mr. Browder, his daughter Atlantis Tye Browder, and the ASA Restoration Project excavation team discovered 2700-year-old Kushite artifacts that were recently installed […]
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