Black History Month

The Red Summer

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 […]

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 […]