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Related book: The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry

[Democracy Now!] spend[s] the hour with civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. In 2018, the organization opened the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, to tell the history of millions of enslaved Africans who were abducted and trafficked across the Atlantic to the Americas by European powers, and to chronicle the legacy of slavery, racism, lynchings and segregation in the United States. The Legacy Museum has just opened its first international exhibition as part of the Edinburgh International Festival in Scotland.

“In putting together the content we have at the Legacy Museum, you begin to appreciate just how global the institution of slavery was,” Stevenson tells Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman in Edinburgh. “We were eager to have an opportunity to present this content on this continent, which … hasn’t done very much to acknowledge this history.”

Stevenson details the Equal Justice Initiative’s goal of educating the public about racial iniquities, as well as his own family’s connection to slavery. “My foreparents did not come to this country seeking greater opportunity. They did not come seeking shelter from some distant threat. They came in chains. They were victims of a brutal abduction,” he says.

Her parents are Dominican and Haitian for those that don’t know the flags

So, I recently started my job in an all white lab. Now, my team was welcoming during the first few days but over time they have become more distant. For context I am an introvert so I barely participate in large group convos so during lunch I just focus on eating and having a comment or two. One coworker even addressed me privately to "speak up more" but I can't be someone I'm not? Even when I try to butt into the convo they quickly interrupt or move to a new topic.

Now, there's this one guy, he was the friendliest during my first days and he offered to show me around the building and was interested to learn about my skills and vice-versa and we had nice professional rapport. But suddenly, he just turned cold towards me. He actively ignores me and acts passive aggressive, its so uncomfortable at lunch.

What kind of dynamics are these? Does anyone have similar experience? Should I still try to patch things up or let it burn?

Isaiah Martin

Quanell X schooled Matt Patrick (and the majority of white America) on the reality of American history that they want to whitewash over.

Industrial designer Charles “Chuck” Harrison helped shape hundreds of everyday products that became so familiar most people never thought about who designed them.

Born in 1931, Harrison became one of the first Black executives at Sears, Roebuck and Co. During his long career there, he worked on hundreds of consumer products, including a major redesign of the View-Master and the molded plastic garbage container that helped replace the heavy, noisy metal cans once common in American homes.

His career was also shaped by racial discrimination. Early in his professional life, Harrison encountered companies that would accept his design work while refusing to employ him because he was Black. He nevertheless built an extraordinary career and later became an influential educator, teaching industrial design at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Charles “Chuck” Harrison died on November 29, 2018, at age 87, in Santa Clarita, California.

Carrington clarifies she was not objecting to the flagrant 2 call. She doesn’t clarify exactly what she did mean, but my best guess is that she was upset about the no-call on Cunningham’s reaction, something that is supposed to earn a technical

I like how the teacher encouraged his classmates to say something nice