Source: Robin L Marshall / Getty So, according to British-Nigerian actor David Oyelowo, southern Black speech is just a Nigerian accent damaged by slavery. That’s fascinating, coming from a man whose people speak with the King’s English lodged in their throats and wearing the empire’s language like ancestral jewelry while pretending colonialism hasn’t shaped their […]
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Source: ABC 7 New York / The Merchant’s House Museum A 19th-century home on East 4th Street in Manhattan, long admired for its preserved architecture, is now drawing national attention for a far more profound reason: evidence suggests it once served as a secret refuge for enslaved Africans escaping the South via the Underground Railroad. […]
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Source: Anadolu / Getty Somewhere in the afterlife, the ancestors are sitting at a long mahogany table. Harriet Tubman has her arms folded like she already knows this meeting is about to be stupid. Frederick Douglass is rubbing his temples the way you do when you realize you escaped slavery just for people to still […]
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