Kaleb Moode#thisdayinhistory Mississippi sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer asked the question below of the…“Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, Where our lives be threatened daily, Because we want to live as decent…Aug 22, 2020Aug 22, 2020
Kaleb MoodeOn this day in history,August 15, 1969, the Woodstock music festival opens on a patch of farmland…What happened over that weekend not only changed history, but stood as a symbol of the counterculture’s rejection of the conformity driven…Aug 15, 2020Aug 15, 2020
Kaleb MoodeOn August 13, 1955, Lamar Smith, 63-year-old farmer and WWI veteran, was shot dead in cold blood on…Smith, a locally known voting rights advocate had been threatened to stop trying to register and organize African American voters in the…Aug 13, 2020Aug 13, 2020
Kaleb MoodeWays to Combat Economic and Racial Inequities Pt. 1: A Third ReconstructionAmerica’s original sin stems from the inherent racism that is sewn into every aspect of our history, politics, economy, and culture. While…Aug 11, 2020Aug 11, 2020
Kaleb MoodeOn this day in history August 11, 1965, just five days after President Johnson signed the Voting…In the link below, Teacher Adam Sanchez explains why textbooks present the post-Voting Rights Act history of the Civil Rights Movement…Aug 11, 2020Aug 11, 2020
Kaleb MoodeOn this day in history, African American teenager Michael Brown was fatally shot by white police…The tragic killing of Michael Brown sparked protests across the nation and support for the Black Lives Matter movement.Aug 9, 2020Aug 9, 2020
Kaleb MoodeWhat Exactly is Democratic Socialism? A Brief History of Socialism in America Pt. 1During his 2019 State of the Union address, President Trump stated, “America will never be socialist country”. But yet 3 years earlier, in…Aug 8, 2020Aug 8, 2020
Kaleb MoodeOn this day in history, August 6th, marks the anniversary of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom…The mostly-Black delegates challenged — among other things — Mississippi’s systematic denial of Black voting rights and political…Aug 6, 2020Aug 6, 2020
Kaleb MoodeOn this day in history, August 5,2012, a white supremacist entered the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin…The six who were killed included the temple founder Satwant Singh Kaleka, the brothers Sita and Ranjit Singh, Prakash Singh (father to…Aug 5, 2020Aug 5, 2020