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28 de ene. de 2018 · "The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery' event and book-signing is at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.
Summary: This book is a plea to America to understand what life post-slavery remains like for many African Americans, who are descended from people whose unpaid labor built this land, but have had to spend the last century and a half carrying the dual burden of fighting racial injustice and rising above the lowered expectations and hateful bigotry that attempt to keep them shackled to that past
9 de feb. de 2018 · Rochelle Riley is a columnist at the Detroit Free Press and author of “The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery” (Wayne State University Press, February 2018). Featured ...
7 de jul. de 2020 · The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery is a plea to America to understand what life post-slavery remains like for many African Americans, who are descended from people whose unpaid labor built this land, but have had to spend the last century and a half carrying the dual burden of fighting racial injustice and rising above the lowered expectations and hateful bigotry ...
The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2018. Pp. 200. Notes. Cloth: $26.99. Rochelle Riley of the Detroit Free Press assembled a diverse group of authors for an exploration of slavery’s legacy on the nation and its survivors’ descendants.
The Burden expresses the voices of other well-known Americans, such as actor/director Tim Reid who compares slavery to a cancer diagnosis, former Detroit News columnist Betty DeRamus who recounts the discrimination she encountered as a young Black Detroiter in the south, and the actress Aisha Hinds who explains how slavery robbed an entire race of value and self-worth.
29 de jul. de 2015 · Since slavery, the church has been a formidable force for the survival of blacks in an America still grappling with the residual effects of white supremacy. This was eloquently illustrated in the aftermath of the Charleston church massacre. Americans rightly stood in awe of the bereaved families’ laudable demonstration of God’s grace in action.
