September 9, 2021 is the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the rebellion that took place in the Attica Correctional Facility in New York. It immediately became a major symbol for the resistance of prisoners. Prisoners faced harsh conditions. They were kept in cells...
Attempts to build an oil pipeline through mostly Black neighborhoods in Memphis, Tennessee, were thwarted Friday, July 3 as the company planning to build the Byhalia Connection Pipeline announced they were suddenly canceling the project. The proposed 49-mile pipeline...
Today we celebrate Juneteenth – the most popular annual celebration of the end of slavery in the United States. On this day we commemorate June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger of the Union Army arrived in Galveston, Texas with 1,800 Union soldiers and...
Race defines much of our lives. It says who we are to a cop, a judge, our school teachers, the hiring committee, the banker loaning us money, the landlord – everyone. It is with us wherever we go. Race was a conscious creation. It was developed to divide poor workers...
On June 2nd, 1863, Harriet Tubman, the famed “conductor” of the Underground Railroad, led a raid on the Confederacy in South Carolina, which freed 750 enslaved Black people and destroyed Confederate infrastructure. It was the first time a woman led a military assault...
