Black History Month

Something important needs to be said, and it will probably upset some people. Netflix’s Cleopatra documentary has the worst audience rating in TV history, for a good reason. You think I’m referring to the fact that Cleopatra was a white Greek from the line of General Ptolemy, the companion of…

The "End of Segregation" Didn't Go As Planned — In 1951, Oliver Brown attempted to enroll his daughter Linda in the all-white Sumner School in Topeka, Kansas. Linda Brown was turned away because she was Black. Oliver filed a lawsuit claiming that Black schools weren't equal to white schools and violated the "equal protection clause" of the 14th Amendment…

The March Against Fear was a 220-mile walk from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi, organized by James Meredith. Meredith was a civil rights activist who had been the first African American student to attend the University of Mississippi in 1962, an event that had sparked violent riots on campus. Meredith…

Jews again excluded from diversity commemorations. — I get it. Nearly 75% of American Jews have white skin and, for all appearances, seem to be making it just fine in America. At least as a group. There are plenty of Jews who aren’t rich, my parents definitely included, but it’s not because of systems stopping Jews from…

Abolitionists Were Considered Crazy Instead of Moral — What I knew about John Brown could be summed up in a couple of sentences. He was an abolitionist involved in the raid of Harpers Ferry. And he was crazy. I know he was crazy because every story I read about him said so; I think "madman" was the term…

The Clock Won’t Be Turned Back/Speech On Civil Rights —

One of the most painful scenes in this drama is when the white plantation overseer demands that the enslaved Kunta Kinte accept the slave-name “Toby,” and has him whipped to the point of near death until he does. In 1970s and the rise of the Black Power movement shifted things…

One of the common criticisms of Black History Month is that the month itself is racist because it singles out the history of a single race of people to the exclusion of others. That was a criticism raised in an article that I came across recently on Hubpages. …

An Exploration of Man vs Running Out of Time — The human soul has been an enigma to many, a mystery that philosophers and thinkers have tried to unravel for centuries. It is the core of our being, the essence that defines who we are beyond our physical bodies. …