A photo of two white Galveston, Texas mounted police officers leading a handcuffed Black man on a rope has prompted the city’s police chief to issue an apology. The photo an anonymous witness took and shared Aug. 3 has gone viral, sparking outrage for hearkening back to images of slavery…
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Elite D.C. School Reveals Founding Nuns Sold Slaves, Not Taught Them
The elite Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School in Washington, D.C., has had to face an ugly side of its past after research revealed that the founding nuns of the school didn’t teach slaves to read, as the legend goes – the nuns actually sold slaves. It was the 1820s and debt…
Republican Rep. Werner Horn Defends Comments That Slavery Was Purely an Economic Decision
Republican New Hampshire state Rep. Werner Horn wrote in a now-deleted Facebook exchange with a former lawmaker that owning slaves didn’t necessarily make someone a racist, according to the Associated Press. Horn’s comment was in response to the other lawmaker trying to explain that President Donald Trump could not be…
Black War Hero James Robinson Finally Honored with Military Funeral
James Robinson was born into slavery in Maryland in the mid-18th century. He fought with valor in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 and was recognized for his courage and talent. Robinson met a president and at least one president-to-be. The Marquis de Lafayette awarded him with a gold…
Ta-Nehisi Coates and Danny Glover to Testify on Capitol Hill at Slavery Reparations Hearing
Reparations for slavery are taking a tentative step forward. The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is scheduled to hold a meeting on June 19 “to examine, through open and constructive discourse, the legacy of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, its continuing impact on the community…
Vermont on Track to Officially Replace Columbus Day With Indigenous Peoples’ Day
One more state works to do away with a reminder of genocide. Vermont is one signature away from abolishing Columbus Day altogether and permanently recognizing Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The Vermont Legislature passed a bill that “will aid in the cultural development of Vermont’s recognized tribes, while enabling all indigenous peoples…
Georgetown Students Vote Yes to Pay Reparations
The future of the United States recognizes policy as the way to combat racism. While many of the country’s institutions still benefit from the work of enslaved men and women and uphold the policies that continue to create wealth, health, education, and housing deficits for Blacks, Georgetown University students voted,…
Virginia Gov. Northam’s ‘Misconception’ of Indentured Servitude and Slavery
In an interview with CBS anchor Gayle King, which aired on Sunday, Virginia State Gov. Ralph Northam referred to enslaved Africans as “indentured servants.” The governor, who refuses to resign after his blackface transgression while in medical school, acknowledged that the state of Virginia was once “the heart of the…
Bully Tells Black Students They Would Be Sold Into Slavery
“He said he would sell me into slavery, if I didn’t do what he said, and then he started making little jingles about slavery,” said LaShanti Duncan. That’s the type of harassment Duncan and Imani Wortham said that they had to endure each day in school from a bully at…
Oklahoma State Senator Says Slavery Was Challenged, So Legal Abortion Should Be, Too
State Sen. Joseph Silk (R-Broken Bow) is pushing his “Abolition of Abortion in Oklahoma Act,” which calls on the state to ignore federal law on abortion. And he’s using the argument that states can ignore the Supreme Court because “they were wrong about slavery.” Abortion is “gonna be classified as…