VIOLENCE IS NEVER THE ANSWER: THE ANSWER IS YOU…AND REPARATIONS!
Martin Luther King Jr and Fannie Lou Hamer This week was a week of pain and tears. To watch a fellow human being crushed to death in real time as bystanders begged for his life is a pain that no words can truly describe…. but still, I have hope. As some of you know, I...
The NY Times 1619 Project Revisited
Dear Baileyblog readers, This past year, it was an honor to participate in the prize winning 1619 Project which commemorates 400 years of African presence and the legacy of slavery in the United States. Congratulations again to NY Times reporter and 1619 Project...
The Morning After The Weeping Time
Two years ago, I wrote a book called The Weeping Time about the largest slave auction in American history. This experience which the enslaved called The Weeping Time took place in Savannah, Georgia on two fateful days, March 2-3 in 1859. Today, we seem to be...
The 1619 Project and Bringing History to the People
Dear Baileyblog readers, I wrote this piece in December and it was published on the History News Network and the Cambridge University Press blog in January, 2020. My thoughts regarding the 1619 Project still stand. The 1619 Project of The New York...
Anne C. Bailey and company write about race, slavery, refugees, diasporas, African American, Caribbean and African studies, human rights, history, and memory. We publish every weekend.
Find Anne C. Bailey's non-fiction book : The Weeping Time:
Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History (Beacon Press)
