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.
Between the 16th and 19th centuries, millions of enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas across the Atlantic ocean on a voyage known as the “Middle Passage." One group is taking a literal deep dive into that history, in hopes of making some important discoveries and raising awareness of the implications it has for people today. Jeffrey Brown reports.
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