Articles by ghill213

As a Washington Commanders fan, like tens of thousands of others, I waited in anticipation of the historic rivalry between the Washington Commanders and Dallas Cowboys football teams. It was a relatively warm afternoon for […]

So, we have talked about Reconstruction in many articles in Hill1News. Reconstruction was Abraham Lincolns plan for restoring the South economically and socially after the ravages of the Civil War. For African Americans, it meant […]

Vicksburg, Mississippi, is known to many as the place where somebody got a whooping… namely the Confederates during the Siege of Vicksburg from May 25 thru July 4, 1863. Now Vicksburg, Mississippi was the last […]

Some people say that the Elaine Massacre in Elaine, Arkansas, was the deadliest massacre of black folks in American history, even surpassing Tulsa, Oklahoma, in which estimates as high as 300 African Americans were killed. […]

“On April 4, 2022, Patrick Lyoya was killed by Grand Rapids, Michigan Officer Christopher Schurr during a traffic stop. The story made national headlines. While many black men have been killed at the hands of […]

Not many people have heard of Slocum, Texas. It is a small unincorporated community in East Texas. Only 198 people lived there during the 2018 census, however, it was the scene of one of the […]

During the series named “By The Numbers,” we touch on a historical event called the Red Summer. I remember telling you I thought I had written an article about it, but it seems I had […]

The Ocoee massacre was an event that happened in Ocoee Florida between November 2nd and 3rd, in 1920. Now being a black person in Florida in 1920 was like taking an enema using a gas […]