The Diggers

African American History, African Diaspora, Afro-Caribbeans, Afro-Latinos, Central America, descendants of slaves, ethnic studies

Over centuries throughout the Diaspora, the contributions of Africans and their descendants have not been acknowledged or documented. One of the technological wonders of this hemisphere and the world was created by the physical labor of young black men during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In this post they are honored and remembered for how they changed our world.   THE DIGGERS About a quarter century ago, Roman Read More

The First and the Forced

African American History, American legal system, ethnic studies, Native Americans

Over the last two weeks, the issues of law and race surfaced while board members were traveling in the Deep South (Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi). Previously these states were frontier regions, territories exchanged frequently among European nations, and heavily populated by Native peoples and Africans. To this day, their histories and even current conditions are based on race relations over centuries. On an estate in Albany, Georgia, once the largest Read More

Come a Long Way, but Still a Long Way to Go

African American History, slavery

Plantation:  A large farm or estate, especially in a tropical or semi-tropical land on which crops such as cotton, tobacco, sugar cane, rice, coffee, and/or indigo are cultivated by resident laborers.                         An original settlement in a new country; a colony  During 2012, as part of networking and research, board members of the Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project visited three Read More