Kate Shuster, Southern Poverty Law Center [dropcap]Schools[/dropcap] are not adequately teaching the history of American slavery, educators are not sufficiently prepared to teach it, textbooks do not have enough material about it, and – as a result – students lack a basic knowledge of the important role it played in shaping the United States and […]
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Senate passes anti-lynching bill after nearly 200 failed attempts | The Washington Times
The Senate unanimously approved legislation Wednesday making mob lynching a federal civil rights crime, after a century of attempts.
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom review: a monumental biography | The Guardian
David Blight has written a must-read life of the escaped slave who held America ‘to the lightning scorn of moral indignation’
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Indigenous Hospital, Home of Formerly Enslaved Man Added to List of Endangered Sites | Colorlines
The National Trust for Historic Preservation features sites of historic and cultural importance to Black, Indigenous, Latinx and Carribean communities on its 2018 list of the “11 Most Endangered Historic Places.”
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How 75 Nigerians who revolted against slavery chose to drown in the U.S | Pulse.ng
The Igbo Landing refers to the mass suicide of Igbo slaves in 1803 who chose to die than live a life of slavery.
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A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It. | The New York Times
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening Thursday in Montgomery, Ala., is dedicated to victims of white supremacy.
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The Case for Reparations | The Atlantic (2014)
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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On this Texas island, pirates kept the Atlantic slave trade going—even after it was abolished | Timeline
The tragic history of the African slave trade in the Gulf of Mexico has been largely forgotten
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‘The Blood of Lynching Victims Is in This Soil.’ | National Geographic
By preserving soil from sites where blacks died from lynchings, a museum aims to help America acknowledge the racist brutality in its past.
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Proof That Black Politicians Helped Freedpeople During Reconstruction | Slate
A new economic analysis shows that black officeholders raised literacy rates, among other boons, for the newly freed.
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