Civil Rights
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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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“The Day You Plant the Seed is Not the Day You Eat the Fruit”
I learned a lot revising The Stella Trilogy, but the most important lesson I learned is, “the day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit.” I don’t know who the original author is of this saying, and I know there are many versions of the same quote. This means to… Continue reading
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Black History Fun Fact Friday – Beyond Selma: The Civil Rights Movement in Jacksonville, Florida by KE Garland
When you think of the civil rights movement, what cities come to mind? Mobile? Birmingham? Atlanta? some place, Mississippi? How about Jacksonville, Florida? Probably not, but this southern city and its leaders were just as influential as Selma. I found this out four years ago, when I posted this photo to my blog. A fellow… Continue reading
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Black History Fun Fact Friday – How the Election of 1960 Changed the Majority Black Vote
On the tail-end of his TMZ interview, Kanye West posed a question, “is it true that blacks used to be Republican?” He went on to say, “the majority of African Americans used to be Republican….what was the reason that majority of blacks went from being Republican to being Democrats?” I thought it would be a… Continue reading
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Black History Fun Fact Friday (late post) – William Monroe Trotter
First, I want to say that Birth of a Movement is a good documentary on Netflix and is the inspiration behind this post. We are familiar with the name W.E.B. Dubois but I do not hear much concerning William Monroe Trotter and that’s a shame. While I do not agree with his dissension with… Continue reading
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