Articles by ghill213

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 […]

So, in our last series, we stopped at Theodore “It’s a White World and You Just Live in It” Roosevelt. His term ended in 1909 after serving two terms starting in 1901. His last term […]

I began writing “By The Numbers,” with an article on the “Founding Fathers.” It covered the years between 1789 and 1829. As you remember we used a scale between 0 and 10 to rate the […]