slave owner

More US churches are committing to racism-linked reparations

AP NewsDecember 13, 2020

The Episcopal Diocese of Texas acknowledges that its first bishop in 1859 was a slaveholder. An Episcopal church in New York City erects a plaque noting the building’s creation in 1810 was made possible by wealth resulting from slavery.

Opinion

U.S. Attempt to Erase Harriet Tubman

A. Scott Bolden, NNPA Newswire ContributorJune 13, 2019

In the fantasy of White supremacy, traitors like Jefferson Davis and other Confederates are memorialized for being freedom fighters — the freedom of whites to own black human beings and work them to death — while a woman who risked her life time and again to free enslaved people is simply dismissed. Ignored. Erased.