Jul 09 WATCH: McConnell equates his ancestors' slave ownership to Obama's The Kentucky Republican said Tuesday that he and former President Barack Obama have opposed reparations, and "both are the descendent of slave owners."… Continue reading
Jun 19 Watch 6:45 News Wrap: Hope Hicks appears before House Judiciary Committee In our news wrap Wednesday, former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks was interviewed by the House Judiciary Committee--the first senior administration official cited in the Mueller report to appear before Congress. But Democrats said she refused to discuss her… Continue watching
Jun 19 Watch 3:20 Reparations and why America's past still shapes the present A House subcommittee held hearings Wednesday morning to discuss paying reparations to African Americans for slavery. The idea is shaping up to be an issue with some of the candidates running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, too. Novelist Sarah… Continue watching
Jun 19 WATCH: House panel debates idea of reparations for slavery By Errin Haines Whack, Associated Press Actor and activist Danny Glover and writer Ta-Nehisi Coates are among the witnesses that testified at a hearing Wednesday. Continue reading
May 23 Watch 4:44 How discovery of the slave ship Clotilda informs U.S. history By Megan Thompson The remains of the last slave ship that came to America have been found. In 1860, the schooner Clotilda brought 110 Africans to U.S. shores, decades after it was illegal to import slaves into the country. The wreckage of the… Continue watching
Apr 23 Watch 4:55 How the autobiography of a Muslim slave is challenging an American narrative By Amna Nawaz, Leah Nagy Omar Ibn Said was 37 years old when he was taken from his West African home and transported to Charleston, South Carolina, as a slave in the 1800s. Now, his one-of-a-kind autobiographical manuscript has been translated from its original Arabic… Continue watching
Apr 13 Watch 9:38 The hunt is on for the last slave ship to arrive in the U.S. By Megan Thompson, Mori Rothman Archaeologists are analyzing data from a survey of Alabama’s Mobile River, looking for the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to arrive in America. The ship's survivors were enslaved for a few years before forming a unique community, Africatown. Clotilda… Continue watching
Apr 12 Watch 7:57 What 2020 Democrats think about reparations As Democrats gear up for a competitive 2020 presidential campaign, the potentially divisive and fraught issue of reparations for slavery has surfaced as a prominent issue. How has this topic, which hasn’t always been part of the national political conversation,… Continue watching
Mar 20 Harvard profited from photos of slaves, descendant says in lawsuit By Collin Binkley, Associated Press Tamara Lanier is suing the Ivy League school for "wrongful seizure, possession and expropriation" of images she says depict two of her ancestors. Continue reading
Dec 09 I dig through archives to unearth hidden stories from African-American history By Jane Landers, The Conversation The Slave Societies Digital Archive has documented the lives of approximately 6 million free and enslaved Africans, their descendants, and the indigenous, European and Asian people with whom they interacted. Continue reading