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(1838) Angelina Grimke, “Address to the Massachusetts Legislature”
In February 1838, Angelina Grimke became the first woman in U.S. history to address the members of an American legislative body when she spoke to the members of the Massachusetts Legislature.  Her subject was the demand for the immediate end of the slave trade in Washington, D.C.  That speech
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Can Tear Gas and Pepper Spray Increase Virus Spread? | Afro
Police departments have used tear gas and pepper spray on protesters in recent weeks, raising concern that the chemical agents could increase the spread of the
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Nat Turner
Nat Turner was a renowned African-American known for leading the 1831 slave rebellion to free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia, after being subjected to slavery himself. He started a revolt among the black slave followers to free their brother on several plantations. They gained more arms and
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Black Lives Matter Monument Replaces Slave Trader Statue In England : Live Updates: Protests For Racial Justice : NPR
Edward Colston's statue had stood in Bristol for 125 years before protesters toppled it in June. Now, a very different figure has taken its place — but it won't last long without the city's approval.
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Lloyd’s of London Apologizes for Its Role in the Slave Market
With the worldwide uproar over the racial prejudices that have been taking place for centuries, British insurance market Lloyd’s of London has come forward to apologize for its role in the slave market and share a few of its initiatives going forward according to a written statement by the
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Lloyd’s of London Apologizes for Its Role in the Slave Market
With the worldwide uproar over the racial prejudices that have been taking place for centuries, British insurance market Lloyd’s of London has come forward to apologize for its role in the slave market and share a few of its initiatives going forward according to a written statement by the
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Queen of the Ndongo (Angola), queen of Matamba
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Vesey, Denmark
Vesey, Denmark, 1767?–1822, African-American leader. After many years as a slave he won (1800) $1,500 in a lottery and purchased his freedom. Intelligent and energetic, he acquired considerable wealth and influence in South Carolina. Using church meetings as a cover, he supposedly planned
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(1920) Archibald Grimke, “The Shame of America, or the Negro’s Case Against the Republic”
Archibald Grimke was born enslaved in Charleston, South Carolina in 1849.  After the Civil War, Archibald and his younger brother Francis, enrolled at Lincoln University.  Archibald graduated in 1872 and then entered Harvard Law School.  After graduation he practiced in Boston.  By the 1880s Grimke
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‘Antebellum’ Is the Latest Slave Movie That Raises the Question: Do We Really Need to See Such Violence Against Black Women?
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California Governor Signs Historic Reparations Bill into Law | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “After watching [the presidential] debate, this signing can’t come too soon,” Newsome declared during a videoconference with lawmakers and other stakeholders, including the rapper Ice Cube, who championed the bill. “As a nation, we can only truly thrive when every one of us has the
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Africans, African Americans, Great Britain and the United States: The Curious History of the Rio Pongo in the Early 19th Century
In the essay below, Bruce L. Mouser, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, describes the conflicting goals of African Creoles, African Americans, and British and American colonizationists in the fate of the Rio Pongo Valley along the West Coast of Africa.  Mouser
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Ella Jones is elected first Black mayor of Ferguson, MO
Jones is also the first woman to lead the Missouri city, which erupted in protests in 2014 after a white police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, a black
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Youth scream out, ‘We are not our ancestors! | Afram News
Did the little sister just accuse the ancestors of being cowards and wimps, fading and withering before oppression? Did she know about how our ancestors fought back during the red summer of 1919? Did she know that our ancestors jumped overboard from the slave ships into the jaws of sharks? Did she
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Why reparation must include non-ADOS Black people - Face2Face Africa
Frederick Douglass was quite hopeful about the Black person's place in the post-emancipation United States and was vocally opposed to the campaign to relocate people of African descent to the African continent. Ironically, in the same year, 1852, that Douglass famously asked, What To The American
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(1808) Rev. Peter Williams, “An Oration On The Abolition Of The Slave Trade”
On March 2, 1807 Congress enacted a law that banned the external slave trade beginning January 1, 1808. With that act enslaved persons could no longer be brought to the United States. Although the law would be frequently violated until the eve of the Civil War, many black and white anti-slavery
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Georgia City Votes To Remove Pavilion Where Slaves Were Sold
Officials in a small city in rural Georgia have voted to remove a rare, 18th century pavilion where slaves were once sold, though the decision must still clear legal hurdles, the city administrator said Wednesday. The Louisville City Council at its meeting on Tuesday night voted 4-1 to take down
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Historic California law establishes path to reparations for Black people, descendants of slaves | The Crusader Newspaper Group
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Belgian city removes statue of Leopold II, plunderer of Congo
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Peter Hardeman Burnett: California's 1st Governor And A Noted Racist : NPR
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Gregory Nokes, author of a biography of California's first governor, Peter Hardeman Burnett, about Burnett's life and racist legacy.
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Everyday Words And Phrases That Have Racist Connotations - The Seattle Medium
America's reckoning with systemic racism is now forcing a more critical look at the language we use. And while the offensive nature of many of these words and phrases has long been documented, some institutions are only now beginning to drop them from the
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Why I’m not calling for Black history to be included on the national curriculum - Voice Online
I AM a Black teacher; a first generation born in the UK from the Caribbean.... The post Why I’m not calling for Black history to be included on the national curriculum appeared first on Voice Online.
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The “R-word”Reparations
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(1834) William Whipper, “The Slavery of Intemperance”
? By the 1830s William Whipper was a successful Pennsylvania lumberman. He was also an abolitionist and temperance advocate. Whipper’s interest in temperance reflected a growing concern among African American leaders about the impact of alcohol on the free (and enslaved) African American popula
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A North Carolina City Has Unanimously Approved A Reparations Bill - Blavity
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Royal African Company
Chartered in 1672, the Royal African Company was a royally chartered company which had a legally based monopoly on English trade to West Africa until 1698. The monopoly specifically extended through five thousand miles of the western coast from Cape Sallee (in contemporary Morocco) to the Cape of
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After nearly four years since Colin Kaepernick took his first knee, and several more high-profiled deaths of unarmed black Americans by white police officers, the National Football League––in a roundabout way––has finally admitted their
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