My Fellow White People, We Need to Talk
Valerie Castile, mother of Philando Castile Following is an article by FogCityJohn. I have posted it because I absolutely agree. I remember reading this quote by James Baldwin in 1965 […]
Category Archives: U.S. History
Algebra, Civil Rights, Immigrants: Why Sending Them Home Won’t Solve the Job Crisis
From the book jacket of Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights: “Bob Moses went to Mississippi in 1961, a young man, drawn by the sit-ins. By 1964, his work […]
TRUMP PROMISES FOR THE FIRST 100 DAYS
On the first day of my term of office, my administration will immediately pursue the following six measures to clean up the corruption and special interest collusion in Washington, DC: […]
Meryl Streep Said it Best
Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press. Just to pick up on what Hugh Laurie said. You and all of us in this room, really, belong to the most vilified segments […]
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE AND SLAVERY – YES, SLAVERY
Sometimes I want to scream and this is one of them. How many of you want to get rid of the Electoral College because it trumps (pun not deliberate) the […]
The Glass Ceiling Holds
I think it is a good time to do a quick review of women’s history as it relates to the right to vote. Modern women/girls have the freedom to come […]
Is Gun Use for Everyone?
What would happen if several black men went to a gun store to buy an AR-15 because they wanted to protect themselves from the police? What would happen if several […]
PARABLE OF THE OLD WOOD STOVE
Earlier this year Dr. Stephanie Evans of Clark Atlanta University invited me to contribute a chapter to her collection of stories about African American women accompanied by recipes that inspired […]
The Census Uses ‘Mexican’ as a Race (April 1, 1930)
As far back as the 19th century, when what had been part of Mexico became part of the U.S., people of Mexican heritage had been considered “white” according […]
Tuskegee Airmen Return Home
Our nation did not want black pilots to go to war and they didn’t want to see black pilots come from war even if they had won many awards.
