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Tag: slavery

Posted inBlack Experience, Black History, Stacy M. Brown

Slave Descendants Fight to Save Land Inherited from Ancestors

by Stacy M. BrownOctober 14, 2020December 21, 2021
**FILE** Andrea Levy (R) from Queens, New York, joins other demonstrators for slave reparations on the National Mall August 17, 2002, in Washington, D.C. Hundreds of blacks rallied, saying it is long past time to compensate blacks for the ills of slavery. (Manny Ceneta/Getty Images)
Posted inNational

Liberal North Carolina Town Votes for Reparations to Black Residents

by WI Guest AuthorJuly 16, 2020December 21, 2021
“The National Colored Convention in Session at Washington, DC.” Harper’s Weekly (February 6, 1869). Courtesy of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Posted inBlack History

150 Years After Ratification of the 15th Amendment, Black Votes Are Still Contested

by WI Guest AuthorMarch 5, 2020December 21, 2021
A life-size statue of Harriet Tubman inside the Maryland State House in Annapolis (William J. Ford/The Washington Informer)
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History, William J. Ford

Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass Statues Unveiled in Md. State House

by William J. FordFebruary 12, 2020December 21, 2021
Posted inCommunity

DC School Apologizes after Assigning Students to Portray Slaves

by WI Guest AuthorJanuary 3, 2020December 21, 2021
Thousands of people, including this group from Africa, traveled to Fort Monroe in Hampton, Va., the weekend of Aug. 23-25, 2019, in remembrance of the first enslaved Africans brought in 1619 to North America. (Dorothy Rowley/The Washington Informer)
Posted inLetters to the Editor

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Never Forget

by WI Guest AuthorSeptember 4, 2019December 21, 2021
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History

Reframing the History of Slavery in Angola and the U.S.

by WI Guest AuthorAugust 30, 2019December 21, 2021
A spiritual cleansing ceremony at Buckroe Beach on Aug. 24 marked the 400-year commemoration of the first landing enslaved Africans at Fort Comfort, Va. (DR Barnes/The Washington Informer)
Posted inBlack Experience

Virginia Marks the History of Slavery’s Beginning, and End

by Denise Rolark BarnesAugust 28, 2019December 21, 2021
Posted inD Kevin McNeir, Editor's Column, Opinion

EDITOR’S COLUMN: White Terrorism, American Style, Older than Jamestown and The Mayflower

by D. Kevin McNeir – Senior EditorAugust 28, 2019December 21, 2021
Harriet Tubman reaches into a river to rescue runaways escaping slavery on one of her journeys to free for her people. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)
Posted inAskia Muhammad, Columnists, Op-Ed, Opinion

MUHAMMAD: Slavery, America’s ‘Original Sin’

by Askia MuhammadAugust 28, 2019December 21, 2021

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