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NOW: Free At Last? Introduction By the 1980s, Black America came to another roadblock in the long struggle to full equality. After the Civil Rights and Black Power movements,…
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Quiet in demeanor but with a playful spirit, James Cameron was a force of nature and an unrelenting champion for civil rights. He overcame anger and hate as a young man, then dedicated his life to preserving and sharing Black history as an integral part of U.S. history, eradicating racism and fulfilling the ideals and promise of America.
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Kidnapped: The Middle Passage Introduction In this gallery we examine the kidnapping of Africans, first by Europeans and later by Americans as well. The Middle Passage was the second…
Read More >Recent research shows that experiences of hardship and violence” leave their mark on the body, especially that of the male offspring. What ramifications does this increased violence, especially against black males , have for future generations of black children?
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The real origin of prison slavery is found in the 13th amendment which allows forced labor “as punishment for a crime.”
Read More >Nigerian slave trade results in Igbo Landing mass suicide in 1803.
Read More >The suit coming from the NAACP is part of larger effort to fight practices that the NAACP argues are attempts to suppress minority voting via prison-based gerrymandering.
Read More >U.S. state and local spending on prisons and jails grew at three times the rate of spending on schools over the last 33 years as the number of Americans behind bars ballooned under a spate of harsh sentencing laws
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Karen Branan returns to her ancestral home in Georgia to discover the truth behind the lynching of three black men and a black woman in 1912 – including the complicity of her family. She tells the story in a new book, The Family Tree.
Read More >The full text of President Obama’s Proclamation, dated January 29, 2016, in which he states: “During National African American History Month, we recognize these champions of justice and the sacrifices they made to bring us to this point, we honor the contributions of African Americans since our country’s beginning, and we recommit to reaching for a day when no person is judged by anything but the content of their character.”
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