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: African American 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
And, FDR was my hero
While on the Solano Community College Civil Rights Travel Course we went to Moton Field, one of the two places black pilots were trained to fly. It is just outside […]
Mississippi Voting: you’ve got to be kidding!
I just came back from a Civil Rights Travel Course sponsored by Solano Community College. I’ll be sharing some of the things I learned. Some of them make no […]
Mary Fields, also known as Stagecoach Mary and Black Mary, was the first African-American woman employed as a mail carrier in the United States and the second woman to work […]
When the Past and the Present Coincide – South Carolina
I received an article from a friend in Pineville, South Carolina. It explains the relationship between the Confederate flag flying over the South Carolina state house, the murder of the […]
A Wrong is Righted in South Carolina
• COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – A judge has tossed out the convictions of nine South Carolina black men who integrated a whites-only lunch counter during the height of the civil […]
