NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I hear time and time again from black Americans who traveled to Africa about how connected they felt and how different they found whatever country they traveled to from the images of Africa they grew up with,” said Roman Debotch, owner/contributor of the site Black Excellence.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade – Africans Urged to ‘Come Home’
Posted in#NNPA BlackPress, Black History, Featured, National, News, NNPA, NNPA Newswire, racism, Stacy Brown, World
The Catholic Church Played Major Role in Slavery
In 2016, Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. offered a public apology after acknowledging that 188 years prior, Jesuit priests sold 272 slaves to save the school from financial ruin.
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Five Hundred Years Later, Are we still Slaves?
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) has launched a global news feature series on the history, contemporary realities and implications of the transatlantic slave trade. This is Part 5 in the ongoing series.
Posted inBlack History, Commentary, Community, Crime, Featured, Law, News, NNPA Newswire, Stacey M. Brown
From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Slavery was abolished in 1865 with the end of the Civil War and passing of the 13th amendment, but America found what many see as a disingenuous way of continuing its slave master ways – mass incarceration.
Posted inBlack History, Commentary, Community, Energy, Environment, Featured, National, NNPA Newswire, Politics, Stacey M. Brown
From Slavery to Civil Rights and Environmental Racism
NNPA NEWSWIRE — With President Donald Trump castigating the science of global warming, it’s little wonder that today’s environmental policies not only target people of color when it comes to the placement and operation of unhealthy facilities, they also exclude people of color from being a part of the policy making process — even though they are the ones who are usually most directly negatively impacted by environmental injustices.
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A Slave’s African Medical Science Saves the Lives of Bostonians During the 1721 Smallpox Epidemic
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I’d like to read about people who made impacts but are not entertainers, musicians, and those we hear about every Black History Month,” said Kisha A. Brown, the founder and CEO of Justis Connection, a service that connects the top legal talent of color to local communities.
Posted in#NNPA BlackPress, Black History, Community, Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., Education, Featured, National, News, NNPA, NNPA Newswire, racism, Stacy Brown
The Transatlantic Slave Trade: 500 Years Later the Diaspora Still Suffers
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The fact that slavery was underway for a century in South America before introduction in North America is not widely taught nor commonly understood,” said Felicia Davis of the HBCU Green Fund.
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A Five Hundred Year-Old Shared History
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “From the moment when Europeans took their slaves from a race different from their own, which many of them considered inferior to other human races, and assimilation with whom they all regarded with horror, they assumed that slavery would be eternal,” historian Winthrop D. Jordan wrote in his dissertation, “White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro.”
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COMMENTARY: This Life is About That First Step
NNPA NEWSWIRE — One of my favorite parts of the bible, and one that I would ask you to read and reread is the confrontation between Jesus and the devil. It’s all right there. What Lucifer tempts Jesus with is what he traps us with.
Posted in#NNPA BlackPress, Commentary, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Featured, National, News, NNPA, NNPA Newswire, San Diego Voice
OP-ED: A Question for Black Americans: Vaccine or Body Bag?
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Black people, who are at the greatest risk of dying from Covid 19, have the lowest rate of receiving the vaccine, it appears, for two reasons: one, we have logistical issues of appointment, locations and transportation; and two, we actually have people refusing to take the vaccine in spite of current scientific data developed by a Black scientist that proves the vaccines save lives.
