AP Exclusive: Smithsonian museum will revamp its slavery exhibit after artifact loan runs out

A Smithsonian museum exhibit about the maritime journey that millions of Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic to ...
insider.si.edu

From slavery to freedom : a history of African Americans / John Hope Franklin, Alfred A. Moss, Jr

AAPG copy 39088019788785 signed by author, "To Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence, with admiration and affection." 1. Land of Their Ancestors. Ghana. Mali. Songhay. Other States -- 2. The African ...
UN News

UN resolution urges reparations for slavery’s ‘historical wrongs’

Applause erupted in the UN General Assembly Hall on Wednesday as Member States adopted a resolution declaring the ...
Erie Times-News

Black History Month: Slavery was all about the money | Opinion

It's estimated that over 11 million Africans were enslaved, with more than 1 million dying during the brutal transatlantic voyage to the New World. Once slaves were captured throughout the continent ...
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of African American History and Culture Marks the Return of a São José Ship Timber to South Africa After a Decade of Stewardship

Following the conclusion of a 10-year loan to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), wooden artifacts, including ship timber, from the São José slave ...
The Grio

Before his slavery remark, in 2017 Trump praised the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Here’s what he said

President Donald Trump‘s latest remark about slavery has put renewed scrutiny on the Smithsonian museums, which are currently under internal review by the White House to “remove divisive or partisan ...
The Africa Report

African history for Africans: UNESCO’s Afrocentric rethink in three volumes

The three new volumes in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) General History of Africa series mark a deliberate shift toward an Afrocentric reading of the ...