Emancipation wasn't a gift from white folk. Pass it on. #Juneteenth "The actions of those men helped transform a conflict fought initially to preserve the Union into one that destroyed slavery as well." theatlantic.com/newsletters/…

This will break the brains of those who insist California was a "free state" and thus never had slavery. nytimes.com/2024/09/26/us/ca…

"In the United States, the history of unseeing is so pervasive that it takes will and work to acknowledge what is right before our eyes." washingtonpost.com/opinions/…

Elizabeth Freeman ("Mumbet") should indeed be an American icon. Her determination not only propelled Massachusetts to gradually reject slavery, but beautifully symbolizes the grassroots efforts which eventually led to emancipation. berkshireeagle.com/opinion/e…

The House Speaker wants us to believe that while white people can work hard *and* be paid what they're owed, Black Americans can't collect their own debts, without becoming hopelessly dependent on others. King explicitly rejected this double standard.

Deeply saddened by the death of Professor Charles Ogletree, who fought tirelessly, as both a public defender and a Harvard law professor, to expose and combat racial and other systemic inequities.

I understand it's hard to acknowledge your ancestors benefited substantially from slavery—much less to contemplate making that right. But we need to stop pretending only "aristocrats and fat cats" have ancestors who profited from slavery.

"They refute the notion that it is possible to bury this history and still understand America."

“There’s very little Boston history where they tell the truth. When liberal white people tell us how sorry they are, and how they want to apologize, I want them to understand the horror that I’m talking about.” — @ByronRushing

“If Boston can tell a different story about America, then America can start telling a different story about itself.” bostonglobe.com/2023/01/15/m…

"There are signs saying, 'A wealthy person lived here.' Nowhere does it say this ground was walked on daily by enslaved people. Or, that this wealth was made by enslaved people." — @joyfulmuseums wickedlocal.com/story/cambri…

“The apologize part is difficult for me.” “But if my words can help your community heal and our community in Boston heal, then I’m ready to sign onto this.” — Boston City Councilor Frank Baker

Clearly, we aren't intended to notice that this was a monument, in a majority Black city, praising the Confederacy as a fight to protect the "rights" of "the people." Even my kindergartner knows what "right" was being defended by white southerners in 1861-65.

"In what leading historians say is a first ... we found Haitians paid about $560 million in today’s dollars. But that doesn’t nearly capture the true loss." nytimes.com/2022/05/20/world…

Powerful article detailing opportunities to learn about slavery and Black history in Bermuda. washingtonpost.com/travel/20…

If you aren't prepared to handle a little *stares in Frederick Douglass*, then I'm sorry, but you have no business on a board overseeing an historic site connected to slavery.

In that vein, this map accompanying the book review dramatically misrepresents which states had slavery, and when they abolished it. I'm talking about states from Massachusetts to California.

I don't mean to suggest he was simply a "slave holder," like many of his peers. Before joining the Senate, James DeWolf was our nation's most prolific slave trader. He and his family brought more than 12,000 enslaved Africans across the Middle Passage: tracingcenter.org/resources/…