1619 Slavery

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”…

Panel is Whoopi, Joy, Sunny, and Meghanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf6LPgf1h-AAdditional clips and more behind the cut Hot Topic Black Lives Matterhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oi24bpdKSIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_khDDcSEj0Juneteenth honors the end of slavery in the US. You can read more about Juneteenth at this linkHayden and Mickey Stevenson’s song I Can’t Breathe is performed by Deitrick Haddon.Nikole Hannah Jones joins,…

America is burning. Rioters set fire to police stations and restaurants. Looters have ravaged shops from coast to coast. And now they’re coming for the statues — not just of Confederate generals, but the republic’s Founders, including George Washington, whose statue was torn down in Portland, Ore. Call them the…

U.S. Vandals spray-painted '1619' on torso, a reference to NYT's '1619 Project'(POST-MILLENNIAL) A statue of George Washington, the first president of the United States, was toppled and burned Thursday night by Antifa in Portland, Oregon. The statue is located on the front lawn of Portland's German American Society and is…

The claim: Irish Americans were enslaved in the Americas and treated worse than enslaved Black peopleNational protests against police brutality amid a global pandemic have caused many Americans to reckon with the country’s history of racism and inequality. The moment has caused a fake historical meme to again surface.“The first slaves…

Pro-Mosaddegh protests in Tehran, 16 August 1953 | Wikimedia Commons. Public domain In August 1619, a ship called the White Lion arrives in Virginia, a year before the Mayflower, the ship that was transporting the first English Puritans. It carries with it the first load of African slaves, captured in…