Berry Washington, an elderly African American man in his seventies, became a tragic symbol of racial injustice when he was lynched in Milan, Georgia, on May 26, 1919. His crime? Defending two young Black girls from a violent assault by a white man, John Dowdy. In the early hours of May 24, 1919, John Dowdy and Lewis Evans, two white men, entered the Black neighborhood of Milan.

Every generation of humans somehow figured out ways to make God in their image. The heart of man is desperately wicked, and what better way to justify this than to have God on his side. In God's name, everything is permissible, and one might have to wonder if this was the case for the Jesuits and their involvement in the 18th-century slave trade.

Abu al-Misk Kafur, born in 905, was a black eunuch and freed slave who ascended to the highest echelons of power, ruling Egypt and parts of Syria as the de facto ruler from 946 until his death in 968. Kafur’s journey from an enslaved African to a powerful ruler is as captivating as it is rare. His origins trace back to Nubia, in the region known as Bilad al-Sudan (Land of the Blacks).