Reparations 101: Harriet Tubman and the Reparations debate
I wrote the piece below a year ago which I am reposting because it shows how even Harriet Tubman’s story speaks to the rationale for Reparations. Almost 200,000 slaves fought in the US Civil War and less than half of them received pensions for their war...
Reparations 101: Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask
Today is Juneteenth Day. Juneteenth is the day that many African Americans celebrate as Emancipation Day because it was on June 19, 1865 that Union troops entered Galveston, Texas and freed the enslaved. Though the Emancipation Proclamation was issued on January 1...
“Slavery was not a choice but listening to Kanye West is.”
First of all, I want to thank Kanye West for reminding us this week that money will not buy you wisdom. The good book says: “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all your getting, get understanding. (Proverbs 4:7) These words could never be...
From Kumbaya to Forty Acres and A Mule: The Gullah Geechees aim to preserve their land
Kumbaya, “Come by here” in the Gullah language, the song of peace, the song of hope, is finally getting its due. Henry Wylie, a member of the Gullah Geechee community, recorded the first known version of the song in 1926. After my blogpost last week about the...
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.
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Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History (Beacon Press)
