How a SC raid freeing 700 slaves became a Pulitzer Prize-winning book

Edda Fields-Black will give a keynote speech at Carnegie Mellon University in June in 2024 (provided by Carnegie Mellon University) Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice farming when he came across the story of the attack at Beaufort, which freed more than 700 slaves from Lowcountry Plantations. A professor at Carnegie Mellon […]

Black lawmakers continue push to assist descendants of slaves in California

California’s Legislative Caucus on Thursday proposed a package of reparations for African-American descendants enslaved by the United States. This proposed a proposal that includes public university admission preferences and financial support for first-time home buyers. The package includes 15 bills that have said that Caucus members will be a multi-year effort to repair the generational […]