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Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton introduced legislation on Thursday to combat the New York Times’ 1619 Project initiative, which pushes for a reframing of the history of the United States in classrooms, starting with the arrival of the first slave ship in America around August 1619. In a statement from Cotton’s office, the Saving American History Act […]
On Sunday, Kanye West took a stage in Charleston, South Carolina to hold his first-ever campaign rally, complete with a bullet-proof vest and the year ‘2020’ cut into his hair. During that rally he made the first of (enter your best guess here) suspect comments that will generate headlines until this social experiment comes to an end. […]
Slavery is the backbone of many things in this country. Realtors in Houston have taken it upon themselves to remove at least one remnant of that moment in history. On Saturday, TMZ reported that the Houston Association of Realtors will no longer use the term “master” when describing the biggest bedroom and bathroom in a home. From […]
The road signs on Penny Lane in Liverpool have been defaced because of the street name’s alleged connection to a slave merchant. On Thursday night, someone sprayed painted over the word “Penny” on the road sign. The street name is most notably remembered from the song by The Beatles that shares its namesake. Liverpool’s International Slavery […]
Another racist memorial has been destroyed, but this time, by the hands of protesters. Black Lives Matter demonstrators in England have removed a 100-plus-year-old statue commemorating a slave trader. The crowd in Bristol used ropes to remove the bronze statue of Edward Colton from its base. Protesters then dragged it to the River Avon and […]
Fox News contributor Tomi Lahren said that compliance to stay-at-home orders is “starting to look a whole lot like willful slavery” in a tweet that has since been deleted. Lahren posted a series of tweets expressing her support toward the minuscule anti-lockdown demonstrations that have cropped up in states like Michigan, Ohio, and North Carolina, among others. […]
When Russell Ledet organized a trip to the Whitney Plantation in Louisiana, he decided that he and his fellow black medical students would take a photo in front of the plantation’s former slave quarters. He probably didn’t know that the photo would go viral. “I wanted this photo to just show: We’re here,” the second-year […]
The Game has been leading up to the release of what he has claimed will be his ninth and final album Born to Rap. On Friday, he shared the single “West Side.” He’s been getting increasingly introspective before the project’s release. When TMZ caught up with him in Hollywood following a listening party he hosted […]
Ancestry released a commercial earlier this month titled “Inseparable,” set in the South during the Civil War. The storyline the company featured has sparked backlash among people online, many saying Ancestry is exploiting black history as a marketing ploy. In the ad, a white man runs alongside his lover, a black woman named Abigail, and tells her that […]
A Connecticut woman has accused Harvard University of exploiting images of 19th-century slaves, who she claims are her ancestors. According to USA Today, Tamara Lanier is suing the Ivy League after they allegedly ignored her requests to hand over the photographs of South Carolina slaves who’ve been identified as Renty and his daughter Delia. Harvard biologist Louis Agassiz commissioned […]
