Larry Elder, the often-controversial Black conservative politician from California, gave a hot take on the idea of reparations during a guest appearance on 'The Candace Owens Show' where he argued that slave owners could also be compensated due to their "property being taken away" after the Civil War.
MTV Entertainment Studios has partnered with Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance on a new docu-series entitled “One Thousand Years of Slavery," a four-part series spotlighting how slavery stained the past, shaped the present, and continues to re-write our future.
D.L. Hughley had a lot to say in response to recent remarks from Republican Ben Carson, who brazenly claimed at the Conservative Political Action Conference recently that welfare has done more damage to the Black family than the institution of slavery in America.
The assignment led to a recently-dismissed lawsuit from the family of a Black student with autism, but it's a bit of a slippery slope when determining if it was a fair decision to throw out the case.
The manager of a South Carolina restaurant employed the man, who has a cognitive disability, for five years without pay.
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 the Market House, or Slave […]
Harriet Jacobs was a former slave who penned an autobiography detailing her escape from an oppressive master who made sexual advances towards her. Jacobs became a darling of the anti-slavery movement with the publication of her book, Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl, helping other slaves by way of her celebrity. Jacobs was […]
In wake of more Black Lives Matter protests, the removal of Confederate statues, and faces of suggestive racist mascots/spokesperson, this week, Asheville, NC Council met and decided on reparations for their black residents.
This past President’s Day, which granted many in America time off, honors the nation’s first president, George Washington. Washington’s political legacy is well-known, but not the fact that he used his office to keep slaves in bondage despite laws prohibiting it. In an 2017 piece in the New York Times, University of Delaware associate professor […]
Today, Charleston, South Carolina, has a reputation of being one of America’s friendliest cities and a popular travel destination for vacationers nationwide. The “Holy City” was also once regarded as the national’s capital of the international slave trade, with 40 to 60 percent of slaves landing in the New World within the region. Sullivan’s Island, […]
A white teacher at a Connecticut elementary has sparked outrage for casting Black children as slaves and white children as slave owners in a school play. Dr. Carmen Parker’s 10-year-old daughter, who is a fifth-grader at the West Woods School, reportedly told her about the incident. The child was instructed to be “Enslaved African 2” in […]
Trump supporter Isaiah Washington, who once said Trump’s doing better work that Harriet Tubman, appeared on Fox Soul’s “On the 7 with Dr. Sean” and broke down his interpretation of white America.As reported by NewsOne, Washington separates white people into two groups, those who “meant us no good” and those “that did mean well for us” […]
