The Barras Report Blog

THEY were imported in chains, sold on the streets at auction blocks, forced to work from sunup to sundown, made to serve as breeders before being castrated or raped, hung from trees for sport, relegated to the most menial jobs, denied the opportunity to own homes or to receive a quality education, subjected to mass-incarceration and other manner of injustice--and yet, they slipped through the cracks, jumped the obstacles and barriers, succeeding along the way, building stron