During my recent trip to Las Vegas on a walk back from Cesar’s Palace I’d stoped inside of White Castle to satisfy nighttime dinner cravings. While waiting in line I struck up conversation with a girl around my age who was standing in front of me. I’d inquired about what school she went to, “I […]
The Congress of Racial Equality (Core) was established in Chicago in 1942 on the University of Chicago campus. It was founded on the theme of change, on the basis of instilling change through nonviolent techniques. In 1955 CORE went to the South to provide nonviolence training to demonstrators there during the time of the Montgomery […]
Being black and being a woman is a difficult combination to navigate in the world, but within the United States especially. Historically, here there has always been a lack of unity in African American organizations which stifles community progress. We can see this trend today in the way that several groups with similar missions make […]
The National Negro League (NNL) was established on this day in 1920 by Rube Foster. When baseball was first organized in the UnitedStates with the Cincinnati Red Stockings in 1869 there were a few blacks players that played alongside whites but their careers were short-lived. In order for Black players to receive the recognition that […]
Abe didn’t do Shit Abraham Lincoln’s birthday is today, American culture takes time to celebrate him as a president and for his part in civil rights. But I’m not mistaken, Lincoln has never been our hero. Lincoln did not have a passion for the lives and treatment of Blacks, his presidential slogan wasn’t to free […]
Who is Shirley Chisholm? While watching one of the many tag videos on YouTube I was pleasantly surprised by the Black History theme of one that circled around playing the game, “Black Card Revoked”. The game quizzed players on Black history and culture. Some of the questions were silly while others were serious, of the […]
Hiram Rhodes Revels was born to free parents, his father a Baptist preacher and Scottish mother in Fayetteville, North Carolina September 27, 1827. He was born in an era when educating Black children was illegal and he was forbidden from receiving state schooling as a mixed raced child. Later he was taught by a free […]
During an era where there were no Black lawyers in the nation, imagine bing a black defendant. We’ve all seen or at least heard of the American classic, To Kill a Mocking Bird, where Atticus Finch heroically stands up for the rights of an unjustly accused Black man against an angry town to a white […]
Blue skies topple As clouds shift into shadow hunters, Robing the sun’s reflection of the blood moon. Winds breath a stale stench of Deferred Dreams. As fog lingers in the arms of natures weave, Senescence slowly envelope youth as a snail dries out. Fleeting sanity into nothingness up empty pages. Wandering. Purposely seeking freedom in […]
Ever since the tragic death of Tragic death of Trayvon Martin in 2012, with every birthday that passes I take the time to reflect on the grieving families of those whose lost loved ones to the violent actions of state forces. On Martin’s birthday, just a day before mine, he would have been turning the […]