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...
Examines the continued emotional, economic, and cultural enslavement of African Americans in the twenty-first century. The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery is a plea to America to understand what life post-slavery remains...
The Burden, edited by award-winning Detroit newspaper columnist Rochelle Riley, is a powerful collection of essays that create a chorus of evidence that the burden is real. As Nikole Hannah-Jones states in the book's foreword, despite the fact that black Americans remain at the...