The 1619 Project's creator will give a lecture at the MassArt Art Mueusem
slavery
OPINION: AFTER JUNETEENTH, WHAT DOES THIS 4TH OF JULY MEAN?
Juneteenth can no longer stand in the shadows of America’s celebration of independence
RECAP: JUBILEE ON JUNETEENTH: LIBERATING THE PRACTICE OF PENTECOST
“We can never celebrate without remembering the story of the struggle.”
CONFRONTING RACIAL INJUSTICE: THE CHARLES STUART STORY
The Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford will host a talk on "white lies and Black lives."
THANKSGIVING FICTION: WE LIVE IN THE UNIVERSE WHERE THE BAD GUYS WON
"Americans today live in a very real universe where the functional equivalent of Nazis—European colonists—committed genocide against Native American peoples..."
BILL O’REILLY ALMA MATER FOOTS BILL TO SECURE SPEECH BY GUY WHO DENIES SLAVERY’S LASTING IMPACT
"BU is not designed for us, and this BU does not belong to us just as our bodies and our minds do not and have not belonged to us since our rights as human beings were stripped away in the wake of slavery."
EXCERPT: FROM ‘BLACK LIVES, NATIVE LANDS, WHITE WORLDS: A HISTORY OF SLAVERY IN NEW ENGLAND’
The slave quarters standing at 15 George Street is the only freestanding slave quarters north of the Mason-Dixon Line still existing in the United States.
WHY REPARATIONS: AMERICA NEEDS TO PAY UP AND PAY FORWARD
Uncle Will’s grandmother, my spouse’s great-grandmother, was born into slavery and died as a free woman at the age of 108. Sometime during Reconstruction (1863-1877), the great-grandmother accrued a small plot of farmland that now awaits its fate, as her brood scrape together enough money to keep it.
THE EERILY FAMILIAR TALE OF SHADRACH MINKINS AND THE CENTURIES-OLD FEDERAL THREAT TO THE COMMONWEALTH
The guards prepared to fight any slave hunters who entered Boston, and specifically patrolled the streets of the West End and the northern slope of Beacon Hill, which at the time was home to the majority of the city’s black population.