ROGER HOUSE Marcus Garvey ignited one of the most phenomenal social movements in modern history and was admired around the world. Yet few today understand his quest to promote the economic and cultural advancement of Black people. In January, former President Biden’s posthumous pardon of Garvey created a moment to resurface the vision of the […]
PAOLA VARGAS ARANA The transatlantic slave trade was one of the most devastating and inhumane processes in human history. It is the subject of many studies, but the individual life histories of the arrival and survival of enslaved people in foreign lands remain largely untold. A lawsuit filed against a slaver in 1589 in Antioquia […]
Dr. Andrew O. Baddoo, MD, has dedicated over twenty years to practicing medicine in Essex County, New Jersey. He graduated from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in 1998, specializing in nephrology and internal medicine. After residency and fellowship, he opened a practice about two decades ago in a community in Essex County, New Jersey, […]
Dr. Lily Wu is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Rochester Health Consult, the only Vascular Specialist Clinic in Ghana. Sited in a prime location in Accra (Labone, a suburb in the capital), it serves as the sole Vascular Specialist care center, not only for Ghanaian patients, but also for other West African neighbors. Dr. […]
A quest to find living descendants of 36 enslaved people has transformed into a project that gives Black residents new clues to their ancestry, wherever it may lead. CAROLINE GUTMAN & EMILY COCHRANE When Edward Lee heard about a project collecting DNA from Black residents like him in Charleston, S.C., he had reason to be […]
Visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc9zNQ7v–U For a presentation of JACK CUDJO: NEWARK’S REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER & FIRST BLACK BUSINESSMAN
Excerpts from the book: Jack Cudjo. Newark’s Revolutionary Soldier & First Black Businessman “This is a riveting historical account of an early enslaved African in New Jersey on par with the narrative of Olaudah Equiano. Cudjo, or Banquante, is an extraordinary person who enters our history in this book with a much fuller portrait and […]
In Virginia, the land still owned by the Coles family could yield billions from uranium. Does any of that wealth belong to the descendants of the enslaved? JULIE ZAUZMER WEIL The land came first, 5,557 acres of forest purchased two years after the Revolutionary War by a Virginia slaveholder and future congressman. The mansion came […]
SETH FREED WESSLER The cemetery’s disappearance cleared the way for the expansion of a Microsoft data center, despite layers of federal and state regulations nominally intended to protect culturally significant sites. Nobody working to bring a $346 million Microsoft project to rural Virginia expected to find graves in the woods. But in a cluster of […]
A St. Louis doula program, part of a nonprofit that received funding in the $1.7 trillion federal budget bill, looks for solutions in a benefit largely associated with affluent white women. ERICA L. GREEN Tara Ervin will never forget the week her sister Kelly died. It was July 1996 and Kelly, 34 weeks pregnant, was […]
