by Starlette Thomas | Aug 28, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
In 1963, people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. to envision and catalyze change. Sixty years later, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream remains unmatched in its prophetic demand. Named the greatest speech of the 20th century in 1999, King’s “I Have a...
by Starlette Thomas | Jul 17, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre filed a lawsuit for reparations and the rebuilding of the Greenwood District. Caroline Wall, an Oklahoma judge, dismissed it and don’t you ever forget it. The court ruled that Lessie Benningfield Randle, Viola Fletcher and...
by Starlette Thomas | Jun 5, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
When history starts to repeat itself, interrupt it. We’ve heard these stories of injustice before and unless this is a particular favorite of yours, we’ve got to stop police brutality. “I feared for my life, so I shot him. The end.” That is, of course, until it...
by Wendell Griffen | Mar 22, 2022 | Opinion
The formerly enslaved population of the U.S. was given no land, no property, no money. They received no restitution for deprivations they had been forced to endure under the “rule of law” – neither have their more than 30 million descendants. The nation that...
by Wendell Griffen | Mar 21, 2022 | Opinion
I am one of the more than 30 million descendants of American slavery. Our enslaved ancestors were shipped, sold, robbed, maimed, raped, murdered and otherwise wronged from 1619, when a Dutch ship named the White Lion arrived at Jamestown, Virginia, until slavery was...