By Samir Iydroose, age 11
Formerly a senior news producer at Democracy Now!, Carla Wills is the manager of audio production at National Geographic and the executive editor of the Into the Depths podcast. Into the Depths follows a team of Black researchers and divers as they discover and explore many of the thousands of shipwrecks from the transatlantic slave trade.
By Jessie Mitnick, age 13
The Abolition Amendment aims to revise the 13th Constitutional Amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States. These representatives are fighting a so-called loophole in the 13th Amendment, which allows for involuntary servitude to continue as a form of criminal punishment.
By Dayanara Hernandez, age 14 On a warm sunny day, New York Times journalist Nicole Hannah-Jones stands on shoreline of Old Point Comfort, Virginia, with the waves lapping beside her and the seagulls chirping above. In the first epsiode of the 1619 podcast, she pauses for a moment to imagine what her ancestors and the …
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By Rene Emmanuel Ambroise, Age 10 “History is entirely based on interpretation of evidence, and sometimes to reveal the truth of the past you have to be willing to go back and see if the stories we tell about people and movements really reveal the full accuracy of how we used to live” – …
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By Nylu Bridges Bernshtayn, age 13 Slavery began in what is now the United States in 1619 and ended in 1865 when the thirteenth amendment was ratified. During that period, families were torn apart and family members were sold into slavery. “About one-third of enslaved children in the upper South experienced separation either by …
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By MOKGWETSI SIZWE CHAPMAN, age 13 Published by Three Rivers Press in New York, 2006. Forty Millon Dollar Slaves: The Rise Fall and Redemption of the Black Athlete is about African-American athletes, and how they make their way to the top of the sports world, including the discrimination, prejudice and injustice that came with the …
Can you name the teacher, journalist and activist who helped create the NAACP?
Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell issued a proclamation declaring April 2010 as Confederate History Month in his state.
In Pakistan, kids want to study, not make Bricks
