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In the first episode of “Honoring My Enslaved Ancestors,” Code Switch co-host B.A. Parker explores her family’s history at Somerset Plantation in Creswell, North Carolina. Despite passing the site every summer, Parker had avoided visiting it for years. Following the death of her Grandma Doris, Parker grapples with how to honor her enslaved ancestors’ legacy. […]
San Francisco could be the first city in the United States to make a move that could allow the city to pay reparations in a big way. In a $5 million per person way. The San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee released a report this week. In that report they listed more than 100 […]
150 years later we are still systemically dealing with slavery. Coming up on the midterm elections there will be five states voting on slavery in the United States. It’s interesting how some people will say that slavery and racism never happened or does not exist event though it is written in the U.S. Constitution. It […]
South Carolina man was awarded over $200,000 after working at a diner for 30 years and being taken advantage of for 5 of those years. The victim identified is John Christopher Smith was awarded the money after being taking advantage of due to his intellectual disabilities and was forced to work over hundred of hours […]
A city council in Asheville North Carolina unanimously approved reparations for Black citizens apologizing for the city’s role in slavery. The vote came down Tuesday night 7-0, the city is not going to directly pay citizens money but instead they’re going to invest in neighborhoods that see racial disparities. The city will form a Community […]
2020 has been a year we will never forget, a year of change, and a year of discovery. This year has been filled with ugliness and beauty, the worst and the best of humanity. It has been in a strange way about balance. In all things have to find the good to balance circumstances or […]
#Frontliners, what are we going to do with this new information rapper B.o.B. has passed along to us?! Slavery didn’t happen because he has never seen a slave ship….. ???? Yep! He posted it on his Instagram. Check it out for yourself.
Kanye West was on TMZ Live Tuesday and he said things that left us scratching our heads like huh?….. You okay bruh??
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