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Harvard University Admits (‘With Receipts’) to Legacy of Slavery

Harvard University has finally admitted to its legacy of slavery and they have the receipts. In 2019, Harvard’s 29th president, Lawrence S. Bacow, established the Presidential Initiative on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery, appointed a committee representative of all the University’s…

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The Economics of the Atlantic Slave Trade

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…

America Featured by Editor February 2, 2021

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How American Citizenship Became a Racial Issue: The Nationality Act of 1790

In 1790, the new Congress passed a naturalization act, referred to as the Nationality Act of 1790. Congress limited the right to citizenship to “free white persons.” In practice, only white, male property owners could naturalize and acquire the status of citizens,…

America Culture Featured Society by Samantha Johnas January 30, 2021

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Univ. of Michigan to Lead Team Studying Path to Reparations

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…

Culture Europe Featured by Editor January 25, 2021

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The Early Days of the Atlantic Slave Trade from 1500

The Portuguese seized the island of Sao Tome in the Gulf of Guinea and about 200 miles west of Gabon. The plantations were supposed to produce sugar for the European market. This was one of the earliest forms of black labor used…

America Culture Featured by Samantha Johnas December 15, 2020

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US Universities with Ties to Slavery

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…

America Featured by John Akina October 29, 2020

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The 15th Amendment and the Black Vote in America

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,…

Culture Europe Featured by Ana Mosioa-Tunya June 12, 2020

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Edward Colston’s Legacy: Black Labour White Wealth

Three hundred years ago, Edward Colston was one of the most notorious human traffickers in the world. He was second in command at the Royal African Company. The Navigation Act of 1660 enabled the Royal African Company to gain a monopoly over…

America Featured The Caribbean by Editor January 11, 2019

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Slave Owners Heavily Edited ‘Slave Bible’ to Remove Passages That Might Encourage Uprisings

When 19th-century British missionaries arrived in the Caribbean to convert enslaved Africans, they came armed with a heavily edited version of the Bible. Any passage that might incite rebellion was removed; gone, for instance, were references to the exodus of enslaved Israelites…

Business West Africa World News by Editor April 13, 2017

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African Migrants Being Sold in Libyan Slave Markets

Intermational Organization for Migration (IOM) staff in Niger and Libya have documented shocking events on North African migrant routes, which they have described as 'slave markets' tormenting hundreds of young African men bound for Libya. Operations Officers with IOM’s office in Niger, reported on…