Issue: 725

January 18, 2018

Commentary

The Exclusion of Black Resistance

By Dr. Lenore Daniels, PhD Editorial Board

White supremacist depictions of Black women erase an entire legacy of the Black struggle. What American expected Black women to send the unconscionable to Washington to join in what is already an unconscionable cesspool? By contrast, over 63% of white females in Alabama couldn’t imagine Black women getting in the way of sending the patriarch to Washington DC.

Originally, this piece was to be a commentary on the television comedy, Black-ish. Just before the holiday season, December 2018, I rented season one of the…

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Commentary

January and the Haitian Revolution

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD Columnist

The significance of the Haitian Revolution is that the African people of Haiti successfully defeated the top military powers of that day - Napoleon and his French military might, Britain, and Spain.

Much has been said about Haiti and its historical context. In order to understand the history of Haiti and the importance of the Haitian Revolution when…

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