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via BlackAmericaWeb: A fourth-grade homework assignment in Milwaukee, Wisconsin has raised eyebrows across social media for its egregious task. USA Today reports that the assignment asked students to write three good reasons for slavery and three bad reasons. Trameka Brown-Berry went to Facebook to share the assignment to see if other people found it as offensive […]
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Rep. Jeffries dissected the history of Africans in America and the Black experience in the United States.
Richard Spencer, president of The National Policy Institute and founder of the Radix Journal, and a self-described identitarian who supports White supremacist views, joined Roland Martin on NewsOne Now to share why White voters are so angry. Spencer told Martin that Donald Trump “brings an existential quality to the presidential campaign that wasn’t there before.” When Martin challenged […]
A Black man who worked at Yale University got fed up with a stained-glass panel that depicted slavery. So Corey Menafee told The New Haven Independent that he decided to break it. He lost his job and now faces a felony charge. The controversial panel, which shows slaves picking cotton, was in Yale’s Calhoun residential college […]
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McGraw-Hill CEO David Levin believes his company has done more than enough to fix the erasure of slavery from their textbooks.
Fifteen years before Amistad, there was the Antelope: a slave ship with 275 captives whose fates were argued before the U.S. Supreme Court not just…