Tag: slave
First Black woman explorer on National Geographic cover works to uncover history
ABC News’ Linsey Davis speaks with Tara Roberts on her mission to find wreckage from sunken slave ships, chronicled on her new National Geographic podcast…
A.E. Rooks talks about ‘The Black Joke’
ABC News’ Linsey Davis speaks with A.E. Rooks about her new book “The Black Joke: The True Story of One Ship’s Battle Against the Slave…
LeBron James slams NFL team owners during his HBO talk show
James said the NFL has “a bunch of old white men owning teams” with a “slave mentality” and that the NBA is more tolerant. source
China’s Muslim refugees say they are victims of slave labor
ABC News’ Bob Woodruff reports on Uighurs who say they’re being forced into slave labor inside China’s Xinjiang region, and how the U.S. is responding….
Opal Lee: The Grandmother of Juneteenth | Voices Magnified | A&E
Opal Lee, “the Grandmother of Juneteenth,” is a 94-year-old activist who has spent decades working to make June 19th a national holiday celebrating of the…
A Turkic Muslim family’s journey to safety after facing persecution in China | Nightline
The U.N. and human rights groups say more than a half-million Turkic Muslims are forced into detention camps in China, with some made to carry…
Spotlight on Broadway’s ‘Slave Play’
Playwright Jeremy O. Harris explains the themes of race and relationships within his Broadway play. source
Nationwide push to remove confederate symbols | WNT
A statue of a confederate soldier was removed in Jacksonville, Florida, and the Navy moved to ban all confederate flags from public spaces. WATCH THE…
