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“#Colin Kaepernick compares NFL tactics to slavery in Netflix special” Colin Kaepernick compares the NFL’s draft process to a slave auction in his new Netflix special — with black “athletes” in shackles and their white “owners” whipping them. The former NFL player uses the analogy in his drama series “Colin in Black & White” to…
“#Letters to the Editor — July 24, 2021” The Issue: Eric Adams’ plan to change the names of city streets and buildings that honor slave owners. Removing slave owners’ names from street signs, buildings and parks and the removal of statues will not erase our history (“Adams eyes city slavery name changes,” July 17). It…
“#Salute the American Revolution’s enduring legacy” It’s been a hard time for the American Revolution. It’s been smeared by the New York Times 1619 project as a fight to preserve slavery. Juneteenth, a worthy event in its own right, is considered by some as a candidate to replace July 4, marking a supposedly more palatable…
“#On Juneteenth, remember those who paved the way for slavery’s extinction” This week, the Senate unanimously passed a bill declaring Juneteenth a national holiday, commemorating June 19, 1865, when a Union general informed the last enslaved people in Texas that, thanks to the 13th Amendment, they were free. This was the denouement of a long…
“#Congress passes bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday” Enlarge Image (Left to right) Rep. Danny Davis, Sen. Ed Markey, Steve Williams, president of the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation and Sen. Tina Smith celebrate the passage of the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act at the Capitol on June 16, 2021. CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty…
“#Vet’s mic cut off as he spoke of role of slaves in Memorial Day” A US Army veteran’s microphone was cut off during a Memorial Day event in Ohio as he discussed the role freed black slaves played in the holiday’s origins, video shows. Footage of Monday’s event shows retired Army Lt. Col. Barnard Kemter…
“#How a ‘slavery’ uproar at Juilliard School threatens artistic expression” Turn on CNN or open The New York Times, and you may encounter someone explaining how exhausting it is to be a black person. The idea that systemic racism is leaving blacks scarred and spent has been embraced across mainstream America, articulated by corporate CEOs…
“#No, US policing doesn’t trace its roots to heinous slave patrols” There’s a storyline in vogue among those who would defund the cops that claims that modern policing grew out of the vile squads that hunted runaway slaves. “From slave patrols to traffic stops. We can’t reform this,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) recently admonished. It’s a…
“#Colleges pushed anew for reparations for slavery, racism” PROVIDENCE, R.I. — For Brown University students, the Ivy League college’s next step in its yearslong quest to atone for its legacy of slavery is clear: Pay up. Nearly two decades after the Providence, Rhode Island, institution launched its much-lauded reckoning, undergraduate students this spring voted overwhelmingly for the…
“#Jane Austen’s links to slavery ‘interrogated’ by historians” Historians are spilling the tea over Jane Austen’s connections with slave plantations. A museum dedicated to the “Pride & Prejudice” author, located at her old home in the Hampshire village of Chawton, is reportedly investigating the Austen family’s place in “Regency era colonialism,” as evidenced by Austen’s…