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Frank Bailey — Black British Hidden Stories | Medium
Courtney Ismain Jul 5, 2019·2 min read A defender of black social progression When the government invited subjects of their Caribbean colonies to work in Britain following the Second World War, they expected them to return home after a few … Continue reading
Group Urges Atlantic Seafloor be Labeled a Memorial to Slave Trading
BEAUFORT, N.C. – Before deep-sea mining begins on the seafloor in international waters of the Atlantic Basin, a group of scholars is suggesting that a portion of the seabed be marked on maps and charts as a virtual memorial to … Continue reading
We’re Still Living and Dying in the Slaveholders’ Republic
Ibram X. Kendi Director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research He became a founding father. He coveted his freedom. But for most of his political career, he turned away from talk of founding or fathering a new nation … Continue reading
Obama’s Secret Weapon In The South: Small, Dead, But Still Kickin’
October 10, 201212:49 PM ET ROBERT KRULWICH Look at this map, and notice that deep, deep in the Republican South, there’s a thin blue band stretching from the Carolinas through Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. These are the counties that went … Continue reading
Wealthy funder pays reparations for use of HeLa cells
Cells from Henrietta Lacks gave rise to a historic cell line from which many have profited — although, for decades, her family were not compensated.Credit: Katherine Frey/The Washington Post/Getty A major biomedical-research organization has for the first time aimed to … Continue reading
The scientist who launched a comic and flew the flag for Black History Month
Self-confessed comic addict Osarenkhoe Ogbeide sees beyond the superhero to the scientist. When he’s not developing printable gas sensors, he’s passionate about celebrating the contributions of black scientists throughout history. Marvel films and comics sparked my interest in science subjects. … Continue reading
How Banks Made Money From Slavery | Empires of Dirt
VICE World News host Zing Tsjeng explores how the City of London and its financial institutions profited from slavery in America long after the slave trade was abolished. Empires of Dirt is a show about Europeans getting rich at the … Continue reading
‘I just wanted to be white’
The racism and abuse suffered by thousands of children born to African-American fathers and white German mothers in post-war Germany. Watch: ‘I just wanted to be white’
Barbara Blake Hannah: The first black reporter on British TV
By Simi Jolaoso When British TV got its first black reporter in 1968 some viewers strongly objected and she was sacked in less than a year. Now, half a century later, a British Journalism Award has been named in her … Continue reading
The Case for Reparations – The Atlantic – Ta-Nehisi Coates
“Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.”
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