Black History Month

This week’s article is going to focus on one of our heroes, John B. Meachum. John was enslaved by a man named Paul Mitchem. Now usually, when I talk about the Massa, I have to […]

“A humorous look back on black history from a story I wrote a few years ago.” Editor: GHill The phrase “never again” is almost always associated with the Jewish Holocaust in which over six million […]

So usually, our articles about the race riots and massacres of the past 400 years end with the deaths of hundreds of black folks in each incident at the hands of their oppressors. Those who […]

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. […]

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 […]