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The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the 500-year Legacy is a contemporary testament, history and documentation to empower remembrance, education, reckoning, reparations, and reconciliation. History reveals that whenever the denial of the oneness of all humanity is permitted, people sink into vicious, violent and virulent acts of deprivation and dehumanization. Contemporary attempts to deny, ignore, justify or condone the legacy of the centuries-long genocide and the international economic consequences of the transatlantic slave trade have to be resolutely challenged and refuted.For over five hundred years, people and nations have been enriched by the impact and saddled with the contradictions of the transatlantic slave trade. As a result of the international slave trade, unprecedented economic profits and wealth were acquired in Europe and in North and South America. The brutal consignment and enforced categorization of African people as mere property devoid of any human attribution was part and parcel of the emergence of the haunted ideology of white supremacy. That ideology is still used today in a derogatory attempt to justify racism and inequity. Comprising the research, reporting, and writings of the National Newspapers Publishers Association (NNPA) Senior National Correspondent, Stacy M. Brown with those of the renowned civil rights activist, Dr. Benjamin Chavis, The Transatlantic Slave Trade illuminates the multifaceted dimensions of this brutal phenomenon as a shared history. It is a mosaic woven from the threads of sorrow, resistance, complicity, and resilience.

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Author:   Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr ,  Stacy M. Brown
Publisher:   Select Books Inc
Imprint:   Select Books Inc
ISBN:  

9781590795699

ISBN 10:   1590795695
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   08 October 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Chuck DPreface ONE UN Observes International Remembrance of Slave Trade TWO The Catholic Church Played a Major Role in Slavery THREE A Five-Hundred-Year-Old Shared History FOUR The Economic Engine of the New Nation FIVE Are We Still Slaves? SIX The “ Roots” of Slavery and Its Lasting Effects SEVEN From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration EIGHT From Slavery to Civil Rights and Environmental Racism NINE The Transatlantic Slave Trade: 500 Years Later the Diaspora Still Suffers TEN The Transatlantic Slave Trade— Africans Urged to “ Come Home” ELEVEN A Slave’ s African Medical Science Saves Lives of Bostonians During the 1771 Smallpox Epidemic TWELVE Environmental Racism, Another Legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade THIRTEEN The Misleading Myths of Black-on-Black Crime FOURTEEN The Deepening Wealth Gap: Decades of Policy Failures Leave Formerly Enslaved People Behind FIFTEEN Redlining, Gentrification, and the Stealing of Communities SIXTEEN The News Media Perpetuates Racism CONCLUSION Overcoming the 500-Year Legacy from 1500– 2024 APPENDIX A UN Resolution on International Decade for People of African Descent APPENDIX B UN Resolution on the Transatlantic Slave Trade APPENDIX C UN Declaration on Human Rights APPENDIX D UN Report on Reparatory Justice for People of African Descent EPILOGUE African Union Ambassador Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao’ s Address to the NNPA at its Midwinter Training Conference in Florida, January 2019 About the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) About the Black Press of America Index About Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. About Stacy M. Brown

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"""We need this book because too many still don't get it. Too many still turn a blind eye to the realities of our past and present. Too many still refuse to connect the dots between slavery and today's racial injustices. This book is a wake-up call, a demand for awareness, and a call to action. It's about honoring the legacy of our ancestors by continuing their fight for true freedom and equality."" --From the Foreword by Chuck D of Public Enemy ""This book co-authored by Dr. Ben Chavis, with his distinguished civil rights legacy, provides us with a unique perspective on how slavery's legacy still affects us today."" --NBA Legend Isiah Thomas ""Sadly, the majority of our civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King, Jr., have passed on. Those remaining, such as Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, who were in the eye of the storm alongside Dr. King, must not only continue the fight, but have a responsibility to tell our story so our children, grandchildren, and generations to come never forget who we are and all we have been through. Dr. Ben Chavis owes it to us as Black people, but more importantly to future generations, for they must be equipped with nothing but the truth if they are to finish righting the wrong that was started over 400 years ago. We as elders must pave the way for them. This book will pave many miles toward that desired destination. Failure is not an option. Victory is a MUST!"" --Arikana Chihombori-Quao, African Union Ambassador to the United States of America"

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Benjamin Franklin Chavis Jr. is an African-American activist, author, journalist, and the current president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association. Chavis serves as No Labels' national co-chair.In his youth, Chavis was a youth coordinator and SCLC assistant to Martin Luther King Jr., who inspired him to work in the civil rights movement. At the age of 23, Chavis rose to international prominence in 1971 as the leader of the Wilmington Ten in North Carolina, civil rights activists who were unjustly convicted of committing arson. As the oldest of the ten, Chavis received the longest sentence of 34 years in NC prisons. The Wilmington Ten convictions and sentences were appealed and overturned, and in 1980 all ten were freed by the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals due to ""prosecutorial misconduct."" Chavis returned to graduate school and the field of civil rights, and he became a Vice President of the National Council of Churches in 1988 in New York City.In 1993, the national board of directors of the NAACP elected Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr as the executive director and CEO of America's oldest civil rights organization.Chavis later served in 1995 as the National Director of the Million Man March, and the Founder and CEO of the National African American Leadership Summit (NAALS). Since 2001, Chavis has been CEO and Co-Chairman of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, in New York City which he co-founded with hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons.On June 24, 2014, Chavis became the president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, an African-American organization which focuses on supporting and advocating for publishers of the nation's more than 230 black newspapers. Stacy Brown covers Carlisle and Dickinson College for The Sentinel. He has worked for the community news division of the Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Daily News, The Times-Tribune and MSNBC.Stacy has appeared on numerous television and radio programs including AC 360, Good Morning America, Today, Dateline NBC, Nightline, The Howard Stern Show, The Wendy Williams Experience, Nancy Grace, Jane Velez-Mitchell, Dr. Drew, Joy Behar Show, Fox & Friends, MSNBC News, NBC Nightly News, MTV, BET and The Biography Channel. As a journalist, Stacy has covered, interviewed, and even collaborated with celebrities including Diane Sawyer, Al Roker, Denzel Washington, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Al Green, Elton John, Steven Tyler, Howard Stern, Justin Timberlake, and Spike Lee. Stacy is the author of several books including the Essence Magazine nominated best biography, ""Blind Faith: The Miraculous Journey of Lula Hardaway and her son, Stevie Wonder,"" and ""Michael Jackson: The Man Behind The Mask, An Insider's Account of the King of Pop.

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