'Into The Depths' podcast follows Black divers in search for slave trade shipwrecks [npr.org]
By Michel Martin, Photo: Unsplash, National Public Radio, February 12, 2022 NPR's Michel Martin speaks with National Geographic explorer Tara Roberts about her new podcast Into The Depths , about a team of Black divers exploring the ruins of slave ships in the ocean. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: And finally today, a key chapter in the origin story of Africans in America took place over water. Historians estimate that some 36,000 ships brought nearly 12.5 million Africans across the Atlantic Ocean,...