Transatlantic Slave Trade - KOLUMN Magazine

Equal-Opportunity Evil | Slate

February 21, 2019February 21, 2019African American History, Black History ...

A new history reveals that for female slaveholders, the business of human exploitation was just as profitable—and brutal—as it was for men.

Flint Launches Program to Help Kids Who Need Special Education Services Because of Water Crisis | Colorlines

January 24, 2019March 23, 2019KOLUMN Magazine, WRIIT Export

Experts say it’s a step in the right direction, but not enough.

The Transatlantic Slave Trade: 500 Years Later the Diaspora Still Suffers | AFRO

January 11, 2019African American History, Black History ...

“The Transatlantic slave trade … for 400 years deprived Africa of its lifeblood for centuries and transformed the world forever.”

From Slavery to Civil Rights and Environmental Racism | The Washington Informer

January 9, 2019African American History, African History ...

Decades ago, civil rights leader Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., who now serves a president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, coined the term “environmental racism.” It not only proved a true term, but it also linked several eras to a present day that still harkens back to centuries of demeaning and demoralization of Black Americans since the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade 500 years ago.