by Starlette Thomas | Aug 14, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
African Americans are celebrating that Damien Pickett, co-captain of the Harriott II Riverboat, was not murdered in Montgomery, Alabama, after he was physically assaulted by multiple European American men and women on August 5. Members of the crew and paying customers...
by Starlette Thomas | Apr 4, 2023 | Feature-, News
The Noose to Needle Project launched on March 29. A virtual panel discussion titled, “Noose to Needle: How Slavery, Lynching, and Racial Terror Birthed the Modern-Day Death Penalty,” was part of the project’s official launch. Spearheaded by attorney and advocate...
by Starlette Thomas | Mar 13, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
Tennessee GOP lawmaker Paul Sherrell wants to reinstate hangings to execute death row inmates. This cruel and unusual punishment – a historic symbol of terror and vigilante justice for African Americans – is yet another reminder that we are never too far removed from...
by Starlette Thomas | Feb 20, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
An African American enclave in Rosewood, Florida, was destroyed 100 years ago. From lynchings to mob violence waged against African American communities, America has a long and tragic history of suspending law and order when it comes to race. On January 1, 1923, in...
by Fredrick Douglass Dixon | Feb 14, 2023 | Opinion
The Radical 1940s was rampant with multiple burning social issues that concretized second-class citizenship for the masses of Black Americans. For example, the American lynching and eugenics movements and the rise of communism made this decade one of the most...
