Thanksgiving as a national holiday, originally, had absolutely nothing to do with the Pilgrims and the so-called Indians; and it had nothing to do with colonialism or the Europeans who settled amongst the indigenous inhabitants on America’s east coast in the 17th Century. It was established during the Civil War in 1863, several months after…
“We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.” And we do mean men. We hold these truths to be manifest that there is no equality, that women are of a lesser quality, and that they are the weaker sex. And we do mean sex. We hold these truths as prima…
The Honorable Shirley Anita St. Hill-Chisholm was born one hundred years ago this month, on November 30, 1924, four years after the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted Women’s Suffrage. She is the first African American to run for a major party’s nomination for President of the United States, and she is the first…
It is important when studying Black History, that we are cognizant of the fact that the history of people of African descent did not begin with slavery, and most definitely did not begin in America. Africans had already crossed the Atlantic and arrived in future America at least two hundred years before Christopher Columbus, and they…
In Sanskrit, Kamala means lotus; but in America, it means POTUS” Das, 2024 Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive democratic nominee for President of the United States, received the endorsement of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and vows to support the freedom of educators to provide instructional lessons regarding race and social justice issues…
Where human beings struggle for freedom and refuse to be defined by unauthorized earthly authorities, there, Jesus Christ is present among them. His Presence is the sustaining and liberating event in the lives of the oppressed that makes possible the continued struggle for freedom…” James H. Cone According to the New York Times, 28 June…