Similar to the slave and native Amercian gravesites in Inwood, NY (north of Harlem), First Run Features presents the Streaming and DVD Premiere of the new documentary UNMARKED, beginning April 27, 2021.
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ACLU Statement On Historic HR 40 Mark-Up, It’s A Path To Restorative Justice
Today, the House Judiciary Committee announced that HR 40, a bill which would create a commission to study reparations and purpose a remedy bill to congress.Continue reading
The Voices Of Slavery, Audio Interviews With Formerly Enslaved Americans (1932-75)
“During the last three decades of legal slavery in America,” writes Lucinda MacKethan at the National Humanities Center, “African American writers perfected one of the nation’s first truly indigenous genres of written literature: the North American slave narrative.” Continue reading
Library Of Congress: The Birth Of Juneteenth, Voices Of The Enslaved
On June 19, 1865, Logan Stroud, one of the largest slave-owners in east Texas, walked to the front porch of his plantation home, which he called Pleasant Retreat.
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Juneteenth, The 155th Year Of American History From Harlem To Harare (Video)
Juneteenth (a portmanteau of June and nineteenth; also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day) is a holiday celebrating the liberation of slaves in the United States.Continue reading
Sexual Violence Began Once Africans Were Kidnapped (4 Of 4)
By Daseta Gray
In 1492, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus landed in what is now the Bahamas.Continue reading
How Enslavers Silenced Black Bodies Of The Enslaved Physically, As The Enslaved Yelled On The Inside (3 Of 4)
There are many books about the experiences of the enslaved however, there has not been an in-depth analysis of the psyches of the brutal white men and women who, for centuries, operated a system of brutality while they took away the voices of their captives.Continue reading
How Enslavers Silenced Black Bodies Of The Enslaved Physically, As The Enslaved Yelled On The Inside (2 Of 4)
By Daseta Gray
Many enslaved African infants and toddlers were forcibly separated from their mothers for years without the opportunity to develop an ego which prevented them from developing a healthy relationship with internal objects.Continue reading
Op-Ed: How Personal And Societal Issues Intersect The Effect Of Shame From Harlem To Harare
Note: Ms. Grey offers this work as a living document, not complete, and in process. She looks forward to developing the work through dialogue. We commend her bravery in this regard and invite you to participate.
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Only Known Surviving Muslim American Slave Autobiography Goes Online At The Library Of Congress
The Library of Congress has acquired and made available online the Omar Ibn Said Collection, which includes the only known surviving slave narrative written in Arabic in the United States.Continue reading
Elder Clayhorn Martin ‘The Barefoot Prophet,’ In Harlem 1851-1937
Elder Clayborn Martin or Clayhorn Martin, "The Barefoot Prophet." Martin had been born a slave in Virginia in 1851.
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Harlem Fave Zora Neale Hurston’s Last Slave
A previously unpublished work by Zora Neale Hurston, in which the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God recounts the true story of the last known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade, is set to be released next year, more than half a century after her death in 1960.Continue reading
Ambassador Haley Delivers Remarks At The UN In Remembrance Of The Slave Trade
Harlem has a long history of dealing with the issue of slavery, from Columbia University grappling with it's ties to slavery to the African Burial ground of slaves in East Harlem.Continue reading
HW Pick: Malcolm X, Harriet Tubman, And Other Docs At Swann Galleries
On Thursday, March 30, 2017, Swann Galleries will hold an auction of Printed & Manuscript African Americana, featuring powerful ephemera both painful and uplifting from oft-overlooked chapters of American history.Continue reading
HW Pick: The ‘Negro Riot of 1712’ In “Five Points” NY
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New York History Blog reports that one of the earliest documented riots in New York State that had a racial component or undertone was the so-called Negro Riot of 1712. Continue reading
