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Will There Be a Fire Next Time?
“I am very worried about the state of the civilization which produced that photograph of the white cop standing on that Negro woman’s neck in Birmingham in 1963.” – Lorraine Hansberry Fifty years from now, when you do not see protests on the news, sixty years from now, when George Floyd’s blood has dried up,… Continue reading
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Truth is Stranger than Fiction
When I started this blog and chose “truth is stranger than fiction,” as the tagline, it was puzzling to people. Someone even reached out to correct, me, saying, “don’t you mean the truth is stronger than fiction?” No. Stranger is the word I meant. What it seeks to communicate is that nothing we can create can be… Continue reading
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Black History Fun Fact Friday – Slave Patrols and American Policing
This post was originally published under another blog series Unfamiliar Faces: Lost to History. Due the current climate I have revised this post and re-categorized it under Black History Fun Facts. Originally Published: July 14, 2015 Revised May 29, 2020 The tragic murder of George Floyd, who sadly joins the ranks of several unarmed black… Continue reading
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The Black Plague
They treated them like The Black Plague. This walking pestilence ravaging the Earth. Walking all proud-like and powerful all royalty-like and purposeful infecting generations of people with its culture, music, dance, and cornrolls. This was a virus that needed to be controlled. They could not have this thing infecting people with all this hope. COVID-19… Continue reading
