America Wasn’t a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made It One

By Nikole Hannah-Jones
NYT Magazine
Our founding ideals of liberty and equality were false when they were written. For generations, black Americans have fought to make them true.
Published date: August 14, 2019 at 07:27AM
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American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation.

By Matthew Desmond
NYT Magazine
Slavery helped turn America into a financial colossus. And our economy is still shaped by management practices invented by enslavers and overseers.
Published date: August 14, 2019 at 07:26AM
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Alabama Historians: The Last Known Slave Ship Has Been Found

By Richard Fausset
NYT U.S.
A found shipwreck fits the exact dimensions of the Clotilda, which carried 110 Africans to the U.S. in 1860, more than a half-century after importing slaves was declared illegal.
Published date: May 23, 2019 at 07:01AM
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