David A. Love, JD

We see you, Papaw, Aunt Minnie and Uncle Cooter Lee, and we know what y’all did to Black people back in the day in those photos.

Chickens are coming home to roost, indeed.

White fundamentalists have been spending years in Uganda to pass laws that punish gay people, and they are taking it to other African countries.

“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim,” Douglass said. Black people need reparations for centuries of intergenerational trauma, forced labor, theft and torture.

Much like her mentor, Mahalia Jackson, Franklin provided the soundtrack of an era.

The remnants of slavery remain in our laws, policies, practices, procedures and customs.

As the American conservative movement has morphed from racist dog whistles and white-grievance politics to full-blown fascism and white nationalism, Black MAGAs have enlisted as soldiers in the war against civil rights, voting rights, liberal democracy and racial justice.

In a nation built on land theft, kidnapping and forced labor, White colonial settlers do what they do, and that is keep this game going.

Over a century-and-a-half after his death, John Brown resonates in a nation that still has not addressed slavery, racial injustice and white supremacy.