How could slaves ever "benefit" from slavery when Black people were already ironworkers, farmers, carpenters, political scientists and more dating back thousands of years in Africa?
Activist Tory Russell, who spent time with Harry Belafonte joining protesters in Ferguson, explains "why Mr. B. showed up" in 2014.
It is not a new Black Lives Matter movement separate from the 1960s. We are fighting in the Black freedom movement that our ancestors started fighting when the first colonizers attempted to capture them.
