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  • For All of Us to Live Free, Capitalism–Not Just ICE–Must Die

    For All of Us to Live Free, Capitalism–Not Just ICE–Must Die

    “The Dirty Business of MAGA” “The Dirty Business of Tech Fascism” The Dirty Business of Billionaires” “The Dirty Business of Axis of Evil: Israel/USA” “The Dirty Business of ICE’s Slave Patrol Roots” “The Dirty Business of Israelization of the World” The phrase “our American Israel” comes from a Puritan expression of colonial American exceptionalism. In […]

  • Oregon Black Pioneers: Exclusion Laws, Sundown Provisos, Racism in the Oregon Trail State

    Oregon Black Pioneers: Exclusion Laws, Sundown Provisos, Racism in the Oregon Trail State

    I had Zachary Stocks on my radio show, which will air Sept. 17. He’s a busy man, working as ED of this non-profit, covering the state of Oregon discussing Oregon Black Pioneers’ history outreach. Listen HERE. Oregon Black Pioneers is Oregon’s only historical society dedicated to preserving and presenting the experiences of African Americans statewide. […]

  • Democracy or Plutocracy?

    Democracy or Plutocracy?

    Despite much lofty rhetoric portraying the United States as a democracy (in which the people rule), this nation, in fact, has often resembled a plutocracy (in which the wealthy rule). The confusion owes a great deal to the fact that the United States, at its founding, was somewhat more democratic than its contemporaries.  In the […]

  • Lawrence M. Peters

    Lawrence M. Peters

    His June 18, 1996 obituary in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram is short and succinct: Lawrence M. Peters, 78, a retired Allied Mills employee, was found dead Friday [June 13] in Teague. Funeral: 11 a.m. today at Avant A.M.E. Church in Teague. Burial: Fairfield. Mr. Peters retired in 1982. It’s not much of a lede, but […]

  • The Cold War, Desegregation, and Affirmative Action

    The Cold War, Desegregation, and Affirmative Action

    Desegregation – A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States – Howard University School of Law As the US Supreme Court aspires to drive a nail into the coffin of affirmative action, it is important to recognize how the Cold War helped to shape the mid-twentieth-century civil-rights people’s victories and the consequent policy […]

  • New Maryland Governor Wes Moore: Another “First Black” in a Colonial System

    Recently, Maryland swore in its first Black governor, Wes Moore, in a “historic” ceremony cemented with a tearful introduction by Oprah Winfrey and a hand on Frederick Douglass’ Bible. The Black elite flocked to fill the rooms of the inauguration to witness the third elected Black governor in U.S. history. Yet, this “first Black” gubernatorial […]

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