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 […]
The Hamburg Massacre, which occurred on July 8, 1876, was a violent confrontation between white paramilitary groups… otherwise known as the Klan, and black militia members… otherwise known as black folks protecting themselves, in Hamburg, […]
Part II As many of you know, the Hill1News site has been down for the last week or so because yours truly was trying to find a way to host my site for free. I […]
Part I This article is one I never thought I would write. Through the years of research I have done on African Americans and their 600-year-old journey through slavery and civil rights, this story stands […]
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 […]
Mound Bayou, Mississippi, Jewel Of The Delta is the oldest independent “all” black community in the United States.. and I mean “ALL” black. The sun doesn’t even shine there… okay.. yes it does… but it […]
Fannie Lou Hamer’s name is not as well known as some of our other great civil rights activists. She was a giant though folks. Fannie was born in Montgomery, (You Missed A Spot Boy..) County, […]
Yep, Ima say it… what in the thirteen colonies of Lipton is going on up there in Boston? This week they unveiled a tribute statue to Martin Luther King Jr and his wife that had […]
Every year on either MLK Day or his birthday, I repost this story. On April 4th 1968, King was shot and killed at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee by ultra racist Jame Earl Ray. […]
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