FREDERICK DOUGLASS’S “FOURTH OF JULY” SPEECH (1852)
July 5, 1852 Mr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens Fellow-citizens, I shall not presume to dwell at length on the associations that cluster about this day. The simple story of…
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July 5, 1852 Mr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens Fellow-citizens, I shall not presume to dwell at length on the associations that cluster about this day. The simple story of…
JAYLA WHITFIELD-ANDERSON On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was signed, as 13 colonies separated from Great Britain and established the United States of America. But while the Fourth…
Many American innovators and inventors of color have never received the respect and recognition they deserve. Onesimus: inoculation, 1716 An enslaved West African man called Onesimus pioneered vaccination in America…
The ideology of white supremacy pervades culture in subtle yet pernicious ways. KEY POINTS We often dismiss white supremacists as extreme outliers, such as neo-Nazis or the KKK, but the…
Listen to the fascinating talk on how jury duty was designed to stop black people from participating in jury duty. The designers wanted white supremacy built into every trial.
Dr. Lonnie Johnson may be best known as the inventor of the Super Soaker®, but he holds over 100 patents. The Mobile, Alabama native and Tuskegee University graduate was the…
A poet who gave dignity to the Black experience by The Conversation, Verite Minnita Daniel-Cox, University of Dayton Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906.…
OPINION: Empty the libraries and you hide evidence of historical crimes. DeSantis and his minions want to erase Black people from the historical record and deprive people of that knowledge so…
I’ve Been Here For Years. What is the best way to execute somebody? If you had to guess, what would you choose? Lining them up and having a firing squad…
The inheritance of black poverty: It’s all about the men Scott Winship, Richard V. Reeves, and Katherine Guyot DOWNLOAD Black Americans born poor are much less likely to move up the income…