Posts Tagged ‘Black History’
A Black man was found hanged on a Mississippi college campus
A Black man was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi, a state that has an abhorrent history of lynching Black men and boys and Blck women. Officials claim, Demartravion “Trey” Reed, died by suicide, not lynching, but not everyone accepts the official story because it keeps changing. Reed was found hanging from a tree on…
Read MoreSpike Lee and his wife, Tonya, are named ambassadors to Benin
The country or Benin has appointed American filmmaker Spike Lee and his wife, Tonya Lewis Lee, a seasoned producer and author, as its ambassadors for African Americans in the US, which coincides with the country offering people of African descent a chance to visit and claim their citizenship if eligible. Benin’s southern coast has a…
Read MoreBlack men fought both the Viet Cong and the White Klansmen in Vietnam
Honoring Our Black Veterans on Memorial Day More than 300,000 Black Americans served in Vietnam, but it reminds me of what Muhammad Ali said when he refused to be drafted. Ali said “No Viet Cong ever called me Nigger.” Black men who fought in Vietnam also battled the Ku Klux Klan there. It was as…
Read MoreNation’s only Black governor says no to reparations
The country’s only Black governor vetoed reparations for Blacks in the state…because? Wes Moore, Governor of Maryland, said he doesn’t need another commission report. He vetoed a bill that would have created a commission to study and recommend reparations for African Americans who were impacted by slavery. In a letter to Senate President Bill Ferguson, the…
Read MoreThe movie “Patton” makes Black soldiers invisible
General Patton. awards Silver Star to Private Ernest Jenkin
Read MoreWillis can pursue Trump, but Nathan Wade, the Special Prosecutor, is forced to step down.
Fulton County Georgia District Attorney Fani T. Willis can continue to prosecute former President Donald Trump for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election in which voters elected Joe Biden president, but Willis must dismiss Nathan Wade who went before the grand jury to indict 18 of Trump’s followers. Judge Scott McAfee ruled that Willis’s relationship with special prosecutor Nathan…
Read MoreJudge claims wife helped kill her husband, the Haiti president
Martine Moise has been charged along with 51 others for killing her husband, Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise. President Moise was shot dead in his bedroom on July 7, 2021. The 47-year-old Moise was shot twelve times and killed. His wife suffered gunshots to her arms and thigh, along with other injuries to her hand and…
Read MoreCops who murdered unarmed Black man will each receive $500,000
Three officers who were acquitted by a jury for the murder of Manuel Ellis will each receive a big payout after agreeing not to return to the Tacoma Police Department. Each officer, Christopher Burbank, Matthew Collins, and Timothy Rankine, will receive $500,000 if they say bye to the police department. The Pierce County Sheriff’s Department…
Read MoreGovernor Ron DeSantis wants to whitewash Black History as though it never existed
The Florida Board of Education approved a new set of standards for how Black history should be taught in the state’s public schools, but the head of the NAACP denounced the move, saying that it should not eliminate slavery, Jim Crow laws, police brutality, and the problems many Blacks face every day, including, for example,…
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