by News Headlines | Mar 1, 2023 | Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
In 1788, Mary Prince (1788-1833) was born into slavery in Brackish Pond, Bermuda. Her mother was owned by one Charles Myer, and her father was a shipbuilder’s sawyer. She and her mother were sold when she was scarcely more than a newborn to Captain Darrel Williams....
by News Headlines | Feb 28, 2023 | Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black Sociology and Politics, Current News Headlines
American medicine has always gotten “race” wrong. The connection between persons of African descent and western medicine began in the context of slavery. Africans were treated more like livestock than human beings. In the 18th century, medical anatomy progressed...
by News Headlines | Feb 28, 2023 | Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
Carysfort Reef was dark under the new moon. Coral tentacles undulated with the changing tide, while black-tipped sharks patrolled for lobster, twisting their snouts into cracks and crevices.Then, a crash! The hull of the Guerrero ripped through the corals. On impact,...
by News Headlines | Feb 17, 2023 | Black Art, Literature, and Music, Black History (Reconstruction to Present), Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
Header painting: John Antrobus’s “A Plantation Burial” (1860).Credit…The Historic New Orleans CollectionTen years ago, I worked as a researcher, conducting oral-history interviews for a project with the Weeksville Heritage Center. Weeksville is an extraordinary...
by News Headlines | Feb 16, 2023 | Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
She was determined to fight back!Our ancestors sacrificed so much and fought tirelessly for the freedoms we have today. However, even before the law said they were free, many banded together by any means necessary to guarantee that anyone who tried could have the best...
by News Headlines | Feb 16, 2023 | Black History (Through Reconstruction), Black New-US, Current News Headlines
The African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church was the first independent Black denomination in the United States. It’s one of the only denominations created not because of theological differences, but because of racial issues, Encyclopedia Britannica reports. Black...
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