Legacy Museum Montgomery, Alabam I made this proposition to the owners of the negroes: If you will give me Anarcha and Betsey for experiment, I agree to perform no experiment or operation on either of them to endanger their lives, … Continue reading Two Poems by Julie L. Moore
“You think I’m an ignorant savage And you’ve been so many places I guess it must be so But still, I cannot see If the savage one is me How can there be so much that you don’t know? You … Continue reading Happy Thanksgiving?
Sometimes appearances can be deceiving. What we may see at first glance may not be the reality upon taking a deeper look. In other words, not everything that glitters is gold. It may be pyrite, AKA “Fools’ Gold.” America’s gold … Continue reading America’s Fools’ Gold
If we truly seek harmony in these yet to be United States, we must stop the hagiography of its founding and fix the fragmentation built into this nation of our cohabitation. Continue reading Racist Roots of a Revolutionary Nation
“When you say to a person of color, ‘When I see you, I don’t see you Black. I just see everybody the same,’ think about that. You don’t have the right to say to a person, ‘I do not see … Continue reading Black and Visible in a Colorblind Society
Dr. Martha S. Jones’s book, Vanguard introduces us to hidden figures of American democracy. The sacredness of our vote is demonstrated by these women’s sacrificial quest for equality under the law. Black women had (and still have) a unique struggle … Continue reading Highlights from “VANGUARD: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All”
In 1857, as Oregon’s White legislators crafted their State’s Constitution, they discovered that restricting the vote to White citizens only, as they intended to do, posed a tricky wordsmithing problem. The Oregon Statesman printed the transcript of the entire Constitutional … Continue reading “Who is White?” Oregon’s 1857 Constitutional Convention
A nation that silences stories, ignores, obscures, and criminalizes history; a country that continues to capitalize on the exploitation, exclusion, and expulsion of the most vulnerable through indoctrination, manipulation, and abuse is playing a deadly game of roulette on the edge of its own sword. Continue reading “It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment.”
By Joel A. Bowman, Sr. In his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech of 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. used the phrase “the urgency of the moment.” As he spoke truth to power, enumerating various aspects of racial inequality, he … Continue reading The Urgency of the Moment: A Call for Christians to Confront Racism
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