Dr. Martin Luther King and President John F. Kennedy’s tense 1963 meeting
“I assume you know you’re under very close surveillance…” Those were the opening...
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Chuck Hobbs
The specter of violence on public premises across America 🇺🇸
Last Friday on Okaloosa Island in Florida’s Panhandle, a Georgia tourist who was...
Read MoreHow the Buffalo mass murder exposed systemic racism in urban planning
Yesterday, my mother handed me an article written by Jacob Bogage of the Washington Post entitled “Buffalo’s East Side was a food desert—the shooting made things worse” and, suffice it to say that the...
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Yes, Black soldiers fought on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day
Today we commemorate D-Day, the date in 1944 when Allied Forces stormed the French coast in the...
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Life in the “First World” ain’t been no crystal stair
“Well, son, I’ll tell you, Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. It’s had tacks in it, And...
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