Last Sunday, Meghan Markle and her husband Harry agreed to sit down for an interview with Oprah. During the interview, Meghan alleged that the Royal family and its staff had been racist and hostile towards her when she married into their family.…
Amazon removed this documentary from its collection during Black History Month and offered the producers no explanation. However, the documentary remains available on several other platforms.
With unprecedented access, the producers interviewed Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Virginia, for over 30…
During the Atlantic slave trade about a quarter of the crew of each slave ship died on the voyage. The Life expectancy of a European who went to the West Indies was only five to ten years. Some Europeans tried to set…
The Center for Social Solutions at the University of Michigan is leading a group of college and university scholars in an effort to examine possible avenues to provide reparations for African Americans and Indigenous people. Reparations refers to compensation, which may include…
Like many politicians before and after him, when Woodrow Wilson was desperate to win the vote during the 1912 election, he looked to black voters. Wilson said, I want to assure them (Negroes) that when I become President of the United States…
In 1898, a group of white vigilantes—angry and fearful at the newly elected local government made up of duly elected black politicians—joined forces with area militias to rain terror on Wilmington, North Carolina, then the South’s most progressive Black-majority city. The Wilmington,…
Recent revelations show that a growing group of institutions (Colleges and Universities) not only benefited from the labor of enslaved people, but their founders were themselves enslavers. Many Colleges and Universities including Ivy League institutions used slave labor to build campuses, depended…
Recently, the Rhodes Trust announced the 32 American winners of Rhodes Scholarships for graduate study at Oxford University in England. Rhodes Scholarships provide all expenses for two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England and may allow…
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In 1870, one hundred and fifty years ago, Congress ratified the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allowing African American men to be elected or appointed to national, state, county, and local offices throughout the United States. One hundred years ago,…