Category: Color of Law

Black women were exploited by the slave master, who bred them, raped them and forced them to bear children.

She holds a special place in the hearts of Vietnam veterans who knew she sung ‘I Say a Little Prayer’ to help them survive and heal.”

At a time when Black America faced a reign of terror and racial violence from the white mob, this dynamic Black woman used journalism as a weapon to wage a one-woman campaign against lynching.

Decades before Black Lives Matter, Black women were showing up, showing out, and showing us how to do it.

Before, during and after Tulsa, lynchings and racial violence were taking place across the country.

As the search for the identity of the Black boy continues, the painting shines the spotlight on Yale University’s ties to the slave trade, and is a reminder of the immense wealth that poured into London from the kidnap and sale of African people.

This Black woman was on top of her game, and could have used her influence and celebrity status for any number of things. She chose to speak out against injustice.

Roughly half of these states are former confederate states with large Black populations, a long record of treating people poorly and a history of not regarding Black people as human beings.

Some would have you believe the war between the states was all about states’ rights and economics, which only makes sense if you believe states had a right to kidnap, brutalize, rape and own Black people and profit from their free forced labor.

Open and avowed white supremacists operate in the government, engaging in whites-only policies based on a false racist theory of white genocide, with an immigration policy of ethnic cleansing, separation of migrant families and imprisonment of 15,000 children - all designed to keep whites in the majority.