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Tag: slavery

The marker is a reminder of first enslaved Africans who arrived in 1619 at Point Comfort, Virginia, which is present-day Fort Monroe. (Dorothy Rowley/The Washington Informer)
Posted inOp-Ed, Opinion, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.

JESSE JACKSON: The Significance of the 1619 Project

by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.August 28, 2019December 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 inBlack Experience, Black History

Ceremonies, Activities in Virginia Commemorate 1619 Landing of Enslaved Africans

by WI WebstaffAugust 24, 2019December 21, 2021
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History, Stacy M. Brown

NAACP Observes 400th Anniversary of Slave Trade in Journey from Jamestown to Jamestown

by WI Guest AuthorAugust 23, 2019December 21, 2021
The universal church taught that slavery enjoyed the sanction of Scripture and natural law. (iStockphoto/NNPA)
Posted inEditorial

EDITORIAL: Lest We Never Forget Our Past

by WI Guest AuthorAugust 21, 2019December 21, 2021
Wanda Lockridge, president of the William O. Lockridge Community Foundation, (l) at Cape Coast Castle in Ghana with D.C. students from Wards 7 and 8, sponsored the nonprofit on their first trip to Africa, specifically to Ghana, including (2nd l-r) Taleyah Evans, Jamerah Brown and Tatiana Robinson. Also pictured is Myla Brown of Baltimore, Md.
Posted inInternational

Ghana’s Door of Return is Open Wide

by Denise Rolark BarnesAugust 14, 2019December 21, 2021
This model shows a typical ship in the early 1700s on the Middle Passage. (Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History, Stacy M. Brown

Event to Commemorate First African Landing in Virginia

by WI Guest AuthorAugust 13, 2019December 21, 2021
Mary Ann Shadd Cary and the historical house in D.C. (National Park Service)
Posted inBlack History, Stacy M. Brown, Women's Suffrage Movement

‘An Amazing Voice for Freedom,’ Mary Ann Shadd Proved a Hero of the Suffrage Movement

by Stacy M. BrownAugust 7, 2019December 21, 2021
The universal church taught that slavery enjoyed the sanction of Scripture and natural law. (iStockphoto/NNPA)
Posted inInternational

Trinidad PM: Slavery ‘Left Many a Black Person Scarred’

by WI Guest AuthorAugust 7, 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 inBlack Experience

Congressional Delegation Observes Anniversary of First Enslaved Africans in U.S.

by WI Guest AuthorJuly 31, 2019December 21, 2021
Posted inNational

Schumer Latest to Support Reparations for African Americans

by Stacy M. BrownJuly 25, 2019December 21, 2021

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