What are the effects of slavery today?

But the deeper truth is that, for some three centuries now, the communal experience of the slaves and their descendants has been shaped by political, social, and economic institutions that, by any measure, must be seen as oppressive. read more

Today, many black people carry European or Arabic names, which is a direct link to our enslavement. Source: Names Just as Kunta Kinte was forced under the lash to change his name in the novel and movie Roots, black people both in the West and Africa were forced to take their slave masters' names. read more

The effect on society today in the USA, is a story, rather stories, of real people who still feel the effects about which you ask. They are the ones to tell the rest of us when the wondrous time when racism's effects have gone away has come. read more

But today as the US faces what would appear to be an epidemic of race-based attacks committed by whites, it is time to examine how our history of racism affects the mental health of African Americans as well as that of whites. read more