July 17, 2020 will be forever remembered as the day that two Titans of the Civil Rights Movement, Reverend Cordy…
If “All Lives Matter,” then the NCAA must cancel College Football
As a college football fanatic, it hurts my heart to say that the NCAA must follow the lead of schools…
Should lynching trees in Southern towns get chopped down?
Having spent the better part of my adult life calling for monuments to Confederate leaders to be removed from courthouse…
The Fugitive Slave Act as a factor in lingering Black angst with law enforcers
One could credibly argue that the roots of lingering angst between law enforcement and Black Americans, and the problem of…
President Abe Lincoln authorized the executions of Dakota warriors in 1862
As the United States Civil War raged for a second year in 1862, in Minnesota, a separate struggle between the…
And the Confederate statues came tumbling down
If the old slogan “Image is Everything” is true, the symbolism behind busts and statues and memorials to slave owners,…
Black NFL alumni blast Drew Brees and systemic white racism in the sport
Since Colin Kaepernick first bent the knee in 2016 to protest police brutality against unarmed Black people, there have been…
Racial slurs screamed over Ahmaud Arbery’s dead body
In multiple co-defendant cases, prosecutors just LOVE to flip one of the defendants who participated in the crime into a…
The character assassination of George Floyd
Right on schedule, some news media and social media posters have begun circulating excerpts from George Floyd’s prior criminal record.…