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Former NC slave plantation may get money for transition. One group says it’s too early
Charlotte Observer via Yahoo News· 11 months agoMecklenburg County’s plan to fund the restoration of a former slave plantation as an educational...
From rentals to bathrooms: Airbnb listings aren’t the first offensive effort to commercialize slave...
NBC News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoEven before Airbnb, slave cabins have long been used as rental properties, bathrooms, garages, etc....
Is Benedict Cumberbatch facing slavery reparations in Barbados? Official says no
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBenedict Cumberbatch, seen last March, is a descendant of Caribbean plantation owners who owned...
Slave codes used to dictate what enslaved people could or couldn't wear. Newly freed Black Americans...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 10 months agoJohnnie Alston, a member of the Baltimore All-Stars Marching Unit, wears the colors of the...
Plantation slavery was invented on this tiny African island, according to archaeologists
Live Science via Yahoo News· 8 months agoArchaeological remains at Praia Melão. Plantation slavery may have originated on a tiny west African...
Everything must change: It's time to do away with 'plantation' names around Savannah
Savannah Morning News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn 1977, George Benson released a song in his album, "In Flight," that opened with these words:...
‘Kindred’ Is a Time-Traveling Slavery Series That Fails to Do Octavia Butler Justice
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn the new FX drama Kindred, a young Black woman named Dana finds herself time-traveling back and...
Visiting Our Past: Interviews with former slaves strike the heart
Asheville Citizen-Times via Yahoo News· 8 months agoEvery day we see and feel the beauty of the world and of humanity. But history sometimes shows us...
Cruelty of slavery shown in 1853 Florida high court case, not PragerU's cartoon Columbus
Palm Beach Daily News via Yahoo News· 9 months agoI want to tell you about a Floridian from an earlier time. His name was Luke. Just plain Luke. He...
Simon Moutaïrou on Telling the Story of French Colonial Slaves in ‘No Chains, No Masters: ‘It Was...
Variety via Yahoo News· 2 months agoSimon Moutaïrou, the critically acclaimed screenwriter behind the spy thriller hit “Black Box,” has...