Category: Slavery
October 31, 2025
The word reparations within the context of racial injustice has the sense of repairing a wrong, hence, the similarity of the words repair and reparations. The reparation debate remains polarized, with reparations framed as restorative justice by supporters and divisive...
October 29, 2025
Sometimes pain comes from the thought of cruelty and/or injustice perpetuated by someone upon a family member or another to whom one has strong connection. This is the case concerning historical slavery and racism and any present-day racism. American slavery...
October 28, 2025
The below document shows how active the Christian church was in fighting to end slavery. It demonstrates not all Whites was for slavery and/or at least some of those who was for it repented. This event like the letter by...
October 6, 2025
On a Facebook Page in October 2025 I saw a post with the following which I screenshotted: I wrote a comment on the post that said: The video clip I mentioned is from the Total Life Christian Missionary Baptist Church...
February 24, 2023
As the case of the ancestry of Angela Davis, a major Civil Rights Activist and member of the former Black Panter Party, shows American History including its component Black History is complex indeed. She has reportedly discovered through Mr. Henry...
July 3, 2020
*************************************************************** Update: On June 17, 2021 under President Biden Administration the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act was made law establishing June 19th as a legal federal public annual holiday. Legal name of holiday is Juneteenth National Independence Day. The Act...
June 19, 2020
Update: Juneteenth was made a legal US annual public holiday in June 2021. See reference section for more info. On June 19, 1865 the General Order presented below was issued in the State of Texas. This day has become known...
March 2, 2020
An article on history.com speaks about an interview done in the 1930s by anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston with a man named Cudjo Lewis who spoke of his being a slave from West Africa brought to America on the Clotilda, believed to be...
February 24, 2020
At the below link Larry Elders questions the validity of talking about European slave traders without also talking about Arab-Muslim slave traders especially during Black History Month. https://www.larryelder.com/column/black-history-month-why-dont-they-teach-about-the-arab-muslim-slave-trade-in-africa/
February 19, 2019
American form of slavery was enforced under slave codes. The 13th Amendment abolishing slavery was passed in 1865. Those desiring to maintain superiority to and power over freed slaves and blacks in general created the black codes in response to...
November 14, 2018
The US Congress (House of Representatives and Senate) has passed the H.R. 1242 400 Years of African-American History Commission Act and President Trump signed it into law on 1/8/2018. Information on the act may be found at congress.gov. The PDF version...
October 12, 2018
On October 11, 2018 Kanye West met with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office followed by lunch. Others were there including Jim Brown, the Hall of Fame Football Player and now Community Leader, etc. I am impressed with Kanye...
