stood in the Gorée Island building known as the House of Slaves and peered out of the Door of No Return, from which enslaved people were shipped across the Atlantic. "Gorée and the trans ...

The International African American Museum ... the Great Mosque at Djenné in Mali; the “door of no return” in Ghana, and contemporary street festivals in Bahia, Port-au-Prince, and Brooklyn.

From Ghana to Senegal to Benin, one can visit variations of the “Door of No Return," haunting ... to have a connection to an African country as an African-American, as a Black American.

“Gorée and the trans-Atlantic slave trade are not just a part of African history. They are a part of American history ... Yellen stands in the “Door Of No Return” on Goree Island, Senegal ...