Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass: “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”
Photos: YouTube The following is Fredrick Douglass’ classic July 5th, 1852 speech (in its entirety) denouncing the hypocrisy regarding the…
Pioneering Singer Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield: “The Black Swan”
Photo: Wikimedia Commons Born a slave in 1819 in Natchez, Mississippi, Singer Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield “The Black Swan” had little…
The Denmark Vesey Conspiracy of 1822 in South Carolina
Photo: Wikimedia Commons Above, Denmark Vesey Monument in Charleston, South Carolina. After one loyal slave told his master about a…
COVID-19: PSL Announces National Protests Calling for Rent Cancellations
Photo: Twitter The following message was released by the Party for Socialism and Liberation announcing nationwide protests (they say in…
Lincoln Project, PFAW, Releases Ad on the Trump’s Child Separation Policy
[Immigration\Child Separation] Ben Jealous: ““Donald Trump’s hateful and racist anti-child, anti-immigrant, and anti-family policies have left hundreds of children vulnerable…
Pan-African Profile: Martin R. Delaney ‘Father of Black Nationalism’
[Martin Robison Delany] BlackPast: In 1859 Delany led an emigration commission to West Africa to explore possible sites for a…
NY-16 Congressional Challenger Bowman: Make Juneteenth a National Holiday
[Jamaal Bowman\NY-16\Juneteenth] Bowman: “Making Juneteenth a national holiday would be just one step, albeit a significant one, in a larger…
DR. MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE STATUE TO BE UNVEILED AT U.S. CAPITOL NEXT YEAR
[Women’s History Month\Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune\U.S. Statuary Hall] Mary McLeod was the 15th child to slaves on a farm near…
HOUSE OVERSIGHT AND REFORM COMMITTEE TO VOTE ON CONGRESSWOMAN NORTON’S D.C. STATEHOOD BILL
[D.C. Statehood\Rep. Norton\H.R. 51] “Not only do D.C. residents pay federal taxes like other Americans. Our residents pay more in…