baVulnerability is the primary issue when it comes to the Black community and capitalism. By definition, capitalism serves as the sourcing for labor and value that comes out of it. Slavery was the first instance of the wheel of capitalism going 360. Round and round in the realm of building white America off the backs […]
Sunday, March 7th marks fifty-six years to the day when Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and John Lewis, Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), led a group of Civil Rights marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. They were stopped by 150 Alabama state troopers, sheriffs deputies, and possemen, who
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Sunday, March 7th marks fifty-six years to the day when Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and John Lewis, Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), led a group of Civil Rights marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. They were stopped by 150 Alabama state troopers, sheriffs deputies, and possemen, who
Bloody Sunday – March 7, 1965; We\’re Still Crossing That Bridge Read More »
Sunday, March 7th marks fifty-six years to the day when Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and John Lewis, Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), led a group of Civil Rights marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. They were stopped by 150 Alabama state troopers, sheriffs deputies, and possemen, who
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I\’ve been a hockey fan practically all my life. My father\’s love of sports drove him to watch every form of competitive sport. The one that stood out the most to me was hockey. At the time I thought it was a sport for whites. Over time I slowly began to see Black players here
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I\’ve been a hockey fan practically all my life. My father\’s love of sports drove him to watch every form of competitive sport. The one that stood out the most to me was hockey. At the time I thought it was a sport for whites. Over time I slowly began to see Black players here
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I\’ve been a hockey fan practically all my life. My father\’s love of sports drove him to watch every form of competitive sport. The one that stood out the most to me was hockey. At the time I thought it was a sport for whites. Over time I slowly began to see Black players here
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I\’m going to pull the thread one more time. Writing about the slave trade in D.C. led me to the story of Philp Reed. His marker at Harmony Memorial Park was beside Solomon Northup, the author of 12 Years a Slave. The connection lies in the fact that Northup, a free Black man, was kidnapped
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The Awakening I never really saw myself as one who kept abreast of historical events that involved racial inequity or the politics associated with it. That is, and I am embarrassed to say, was not until way into my adult years. Significant points in time were when; you guessed it – when America got its
Last week we kicked off Black History month with a little-known fact about Slave Markets in DC. We continue this week with a story of one of those enslaved Washingtonians\’ who played a major part in two of the most iconic and historic landmarks in DC. The statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square drew
