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After a month hiatus, give or take a few days, I have returned with a new season and more episodes of the Untold Series!
For those who may be new here, this series, The Untold Stories of the Civil...
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I'm back with a new episode of The Untold Stories of the Civil Rights Movement, where I look at some of the most important civil rights cases. I quickly unpack their stories and why I believe they are significant....
Contrary to what you may believe, the rights of Black people in America have not been progressing in a straight line. Our story does not begin in slavery and end with “We Shall Overcome” and the first black president....
In the 12th grade I wrote a short story about a lynching from the perspective of a tree. It wasn't for a particular class; just one of my musings. This week I've been taking a tour of the south,...
(Part IV(a) of six part series):
In the last article I discussed the state of Black rights during slavery by briefly examining two important legal documents occurring near the beginning and the end of slavery: The Negro Act and the...
(Part IV(b) of a six part series)
Unfortunately, with the rise of black political progress during Reconstruction came the rise of white rage and backlash. Reeling from the defeat in the South, white southerners felt doubly insulted to lose the...
(Part five of six part series)
In 1896 the Reconstruction era was unequivocally dead when the U.S. Supreme Court officially sanctioned Jim Crow in Plessy v. Ferguson. The result was a very dark and scary period for blacks in America....
In the last article I discussed how the law created American chattel slavery and perpetuated a slave based caste system. In this next section we now turn to the laws during slavery. Specifically, I want to examine two legal...
“Stop being black!” This succinct advice from my father perhaps best summarizes how to protect oneself from hostile encounters with the police. If you can manage to shed your race, then you have already diffused the situation immensely. However,...
Did you watch the Cohen's Congressional testimony today?! Whew Chillay! I thought it would be explosive, and it did not disappoint.
There were many different topics I wanted to cover, but I've narrowed it down to two important lessons we...