Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. –
Malcolm X
We have curated articles written to bring historical facts to the forefront. Black History is and has been suppressed in our society either by omission or by editing the facts to create a false narrative. But that doesn’t mean we have to accept their version of reality.
Recent Articles
- The Architecture of Displacement: How Highways, Policy, and Power Reshaped Black America
- Capitalism, Oppression, Racism and Profit – The Economics of Slavery
- The Divided Pulpit: Pastors Who Preached For and Against Slavery
- Sundown Towns: America’s Hidden History of Racial Exclusion
- Dyess, Arkansas: A New Deal Colony Echoing a Broken Promises of “40 acres and a mule”
- “Tariffs, Taxes, and the Twilight of a Union: How Economic Tensions Shadowed the Road to the Civil War”
Feeds
- For Years, the Smithsonian Strove to Bring the African American History and Culture Museum to the National Mall. Now, It Celebrates a Decade as a Beacon of Understanding, Community and Resilience
- Hanging Death of Black Man in Maryland Serves as a Reminder of a Painful Past
- BET removed thousands of stories from its website—and to some, a piece of Black history with them
- On This Day: James Henry Conyers Enters Naval Academy
- On This Day in 1872: James Henry Conyers Enters the U.S. Naval Academy
- Evanston, Ill.’s Black history archive takes on a new fight over reparations
- Evanston, Ill.’s Black history archive takes on a new fight over reparations
- Retiring Smithsonian head Lonnie G. Bunch III: “You can run from history, but you can’t hide”
- In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?
About Me
As a person of color, I want to do my part, as we all should in our own way. This is mine.
email: mirtisr@live.com