David A. Love, JD

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.

We have a problem here if Black citizens have to rely on the federal government to fight for voting rights in federal court. What if the attorney general is appointed by a president who is hostile toward Black voting rights?

In America, watermelons were a symbol of Black freedom and self-sufficiency when the formerly enslaved grew and sold them after emancipation. For the white supremacist power structure, this was a threat to the racial order and white power.

speaking of criminals, Trump — who has caught more cases than a mob boss — is running for the White House once again, promising to go full fascist with mass deportation raids, a purge of thousands of federal employees, an end birthright citizenship, and a return to the Muslim travel ban.