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
- Robert Wedderburn: The Preacher Who Attacked Slavery and Christianity and Was Jailed for His Views
- 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?
- In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?
- Trump wants to control the Smithsonian’s future. The organization’s next leader will be a big test.
- How Shorefront Legacy Center preserves Black history from a church basement in Evanston
- How Shorefront Legacy Center saves Black history from a church basement in Evanston
- Mary Peake: The Teacher Who Started a School Under a Tree for Children of Former Slaves in 1861
- These two powerful displays of Black abstract art and design meet the moment
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