CNN CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield August 25, 2019 19:38:00
College says this isn't the first group of africans in america, there were those taken to spanish, portuguese and french territories. >> it marks a beginning of the foundations of this nation. and of which slavery is deeply embedded. so we have the beginnings of not just u.s. governing systems, right, the colonial history, but also the foundations of american wealth. >> reporter: now african-americans can be part of that wealth in spite of continued struggles of inequality. >> now we're engineers, lawyers, docto doctors, presidents, maybe a future female president. but we've come a long way. >...