1619 Slavery

On Monday, two days before Donald Trump was set to exit the presidency, the White House released the names of 244 individuals who would be honored for their contributions to American society in a National Statue Garden. George Washington and Abraham Lincoln would be there, as would Martin Luther King…

Peter Wood, New York Post November 10, 2020 In August 1619, a pirate ship, the White Lion, stopped at Jamestown and traded twenty-some captive Africans for food. The Africans were treated as indentured servants and soon released. Fifteen mon…Read Full Article » Related Topics: Slavery Comment Show comments Hide Comments…

Sept. 7 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump threatened to withhold federal education funding from schools if they use as curriculum a series of essays published to explain the history of slavery in the United States. In response to an unverified claim that California schools were using The New York Times'…

President Donald Trump on Sunday said he would call on the Department of Education to investigate whether schools were teaching The New York Times' 1619 Project. The project, launched by The New York Times Magazine last year, centers on American history told through the lens of Black Americans beginning when…

On Sunday morning, President Trump tweeted an attack on the 1619 Project, threatening to withhold funding from California schools teaching the popular journalism project focused on the rise and impact of slavery in the United States. With his newest tweet, the President’s actions raise a troubling question: Why is the Trump…

For a number of reasons, the history of American slavery has been in the news over the past year. The New York Times’s 1619 Project–commemorating the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first slaves, the Black Lives Matter movement, renewed interest in the idea of reparations, the ongoing controversy…

N'dea Yancey-Bragg USA TODAYPublished 10:33 AM EDT Jul 28, 2020Evidence of some of the horrors of the trans-Atlantic slave trade can still be found in the DNA of African Americans today, according to new research.Researchers from consumer genetics company 23andMe studied genetic data of more than 50,000 people and compared it to historical…

Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas is attempting to defend remarks in which he called slavery a "necessary evil." Cotton first made the controversial comment in an Arkansas Democrat-Gazette interview published Sunday. "We have to study the history of slavery and its role and impact on the development of our country, because otherwise, we…

Oprah Winfrey, The New York Times and Lionsgate are teaming for a series of feature films and TV shows based on “The 1619 Project”. The Times debuted “The 1619 Project” series almost a year ago to re-examine the legacy of slavery in the United States on the 400th anniversary of…

Do people who take a knee during the national anthem stand and cheer the fireworks on the 4th of July? For some Americans, Independence Day is the greatest holiday on the calendar. It celebrates, not just  a nation’s founding, but an idea’s founding: the idea of a “land of the free”…