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Black Experience, Black History

Reframing the History of Slavery in Angola and the U.S.

by WI Guest Author August 30, 2019December 21, 2021

A spiritual cleansing ceremony at Buckroe Beach on Aug. 24 marked the 400-year commemoration of the first landing enslaved Africans at Fort Comfort, Va. (DR Barnes/The Washington Informer)

Black Experience

Virginia Marks the History of Slavery’s Beginning, and End

by Denise Rolark Barnes August 28, 2019December 21, 2021

D Kevin McNeir, Editor's Column, Opinion

EDITOR’S COLUMN: White Terrorism, American Style, Older than Jamestown and The Mayflower

by D. Kevin McNeir – Senior Editor August 28, 2019December 21, 2021

Harriet Tubman reaches into a river to rescue runaways escaping slavery on one of her journeys to free for her people. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)

Askia Muhammad, Columnists, Op-Ed, Opinion

MUHAMMAD: Slavery, America’s ‘Original Sin’

by Askia Muhammad August 28, 2019December 21, 2021

The marker is a reminder of first enslaved Africans who arrived in 1619 at Point Comfort, Virginia, which is present-day Fort Monroe. (Dorothy Rowley/The Washington Informer)

Op-Ed, Opinion, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.

JESSE JACKSON: The Significance of the 1619 Project

by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. August 28, 2019December 21, 2021

Thousands of people, including this group from Africa, traveled to Fort Monroe in Hampton, Va., the weekend of Aug. 23-25, 2019, in remembrance of the first enslaved Africans brought in 1619 to North America. (Dorothy Rowley/The Washington Informer)

Black Experience, Black History

Ceremonies, Activities in Virginia Commemorate 1619 Landing of Enslaved Africans

by WI Webstaff August 24, 2019December 21, 2021

Black Experience, Black History, Stacy M. Brown

NAACP Observes 400th Anniversary of Slave Trade in Journey from Jamestown to Jamestown

by WI Guest Author August 23, 2019December 21, 2021

The universal church taught that slavery enjoyed the sanction of Scripture and natural law. (iStockphoto/NNPA)

EDITORIAL: Lest We Never Forget Our Past

by WI Guest Author August 21, 2019December 21, 2021

Wanda Lockridge, president of the William O. Lockridge Community Foundation, (l) at Cape Coast Castle in Ghana with D.C. students from Wards 7 and 8, sponsored the nonprofit on their first trip to Africa, specifically to Ghana, including (2nd l-r) Taleyah Evans, Jamerah Brown and Tatiana Robinson. Also pictured is Myla Brown of Baltimore, Md.

Ghana’s Door of Return is Open Wide

by Denise Rolark Barnes August 14, 2019December 21, 2021

This model shows a typical ship in the early 1700s on the Middle Passage. (Wikimedia Commons)

Black Experience, Black History, Stacy M. Brown

Event to Commemorate First African Landing in Virginia

by WI Guest Author August 13, 2019December 21, 2021