… Also see our Black Lives Matter and Reparations pages.
1619 Project — In 2019, the New York Times began a project to observe the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans to arrive in what would become the United States. Numerous articles have been published under this series.
African Americans Have Lost Untold Acres Over Last Century, by Leah Douglas at The Nation
The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes, an interactive map from Slate Black History Month
Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nahisi Coates
Bino & Fino: Books Celebrating Black Boys
Black History in Greenfield, MA, by John Putnam, Abolitionist & The Father of Contradance
Black Privilege, a poem by Crystal Valentine
The Black Radical Tradition, a compilation of writings put together by libcom.org
Boston’s slavery ties deepened by findings at First Church in Roxbury by Tiana Woodard in the Boston Globe
Could Black People in the U.S. Qualify As Refugees? by Raha Jorjani in the Washington Post
Crossing the Waters Cultural Exchange Institute, building alliances between artists and others in the U.S. with groups in Africa
The Destruction of Black Wall Street by Josie Pickens at Ebony
Disowning Slavery, Gradual Emancipation and “Race” in New England 1780–1860, by Joanne Pope Melish
Equal Justice Initiative: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror
Found Voices, recordings of slave narratives, from ABC News, 1999
Forgotten Martin Luther King Quotes that Show He Was a Revolutionary, by Jenee Desmond-Harris on Vox
The Freedmen’s Bureau Project — African American Family Records From time of slavery free on line
Hey Black America, Let’s All Ditch Our Slave Names, by Zaron Burnett at The Bigger Picture
The Hidden History of Slavery in New England
How fugitive slaves kept their freedom deep in the swamps, by Richard Grant at the Smithsonian Museum
Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage
Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia — Using objects of intolerance to teach tolerance and promote social justice
New Lynching Memorial in Montgomery, AL Dedicated To Victims of White Supremacy, by at the New York Times
The Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project
National Museum of African American History & Culture
New database will document burial sites of U.S. slaves, by Allison Meier at Hyperallergic
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Dr. Joy DeGruy
Race & Recovery 10 Years After Katrina, an infographic by Miriam Zoila Perez at Colorlines
Retracing Slavery’s Trail of Tears: From the Tobacco South to the Cotton South, by Edward Ball at The Smithsonian
Slavery in the Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts, a book by Dr. Robert H. Romer of Amherst, MA
Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North, by C.S. Manegold