Thursday, April 13, 2017
Mellon Foundation President Explores The Haunting Shadow of Slavery
As the 400th anniversary of the importation of the first Africans into colonial Jamestown approaches in 2019, Earl Lewis — president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation — argued that it is important to acknowledge that “slavery still haunts us today,” during a lecture Tuesday.
The racial divide recently highlighted by the Trump campaign is among the many forms that slavery has taken today, according to Lewis...