Black History Month

When The Revolution Comes…

When the revolution comesSome of us will probably catch it on TV, with chicken hanging from our mouthsYou’ll know it’s revolution because there won’t be no commercialsWhen the revolution comes -The Last Poets The above […]

Black History Month

Who Was Stand Watie?

So we are going to take another break from our “By The Numbers” series, to talk about Stand Watie. Stand Watie is mentioned in our BTN – It’s Getting Real Now, series, and thought you […]

Black History Month

Jack Johnson

“While writing my series on By The Numbers- Civil Rights, I mentioned Jack Johnson and his contribution to African American history, So I decided to take a break from the series for a moment and […]

Black History Month

The Example

There have been over 4700 lynchings in the United States between 1882 and 1968. Seventy-two percent or 3446 were African Americans according to the NAACP and Tuskegee University, although the records don’t seem to include […]

Picking Cotton (ca. 1890) by William
Black History Month

Disrespectful

“That devil Forrest must be hunted down and killed if it costs ten thousand lives and bankrupts the federal treasury.” – Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman 1864One of the most atrocious and godless crimes of the […]

Black History Month

Not In Duluth…

Typically when you think about lynchings, you think about the deep south and how historically it was known for hanging from the highest tree they could find, disrespectful black folks. However, during the Red Summer […]

Black History Month

Welcome Home Bro…

WWII was a pivotal event in African American history. From 1940 thru 1946 the amount of violence aimed at Black Americans had been unprecedented since the time of the Red Summer in 1919 when violent […]