Sybil Wilkes chats with Pulitzer Prize winning author and BlackAmericaWeb.com’s own Michael Cottman about his powerful new book Shackles From the Deep: Tracing the Path of a Sunken Slave Ship, a Bitter Past, and a Rich Legacy.  Check out the full interview below. PART 1: PART 2: Like BlackAmericaWeb.com on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.

“Don’t be afraid. We are going to bring our country back. But certainly, don’t be afraid.” – President-elect Donald Trump Too late. Americans are already afraid. African-Americans are afraid that Stop and Frisk – and racial profiling — will be revived and that African-Americans and other people of color will be stopped and detained by […]

Republicans are hoping to bring more than patriotic posters and American flags into the Republican National Convention: They want to tote guns, too. In an…