Black History

From Censorship to Revisionism In recent years, the conversation about teaching race and history in American schools has shifted in a troubling direction. First, the push was to remove Black history and critical race theory from curricula—justified by claims that such lessons might make white students feel “ashamed” of the past. Now, the shift has […]

The Setup: Three Truths, One Lie Today’s game isn’t the usual “Two Truths and a Lie.” This time, it’s three truths and one lie—because sometimes the truth takes more than one example to cut through the noise. The goal is to separate hard history from persistent myths, to see what holds up under scrutiny and

A Museum That Confronts America’s Full Story The National Museum of African American History and Culture—often called the Black Smithsonian—is one of the most important institutions in the country. From its opening, it has offered a deeply layered telling of the Black American experience, interwoven with the broader story of the United States. Through art,

The Problem with the “2% of White Americans Owned Slaves” Talking Point A statistic has been making the rounds in certain political and media spaces: Less than 2% of white Americans owned slaves. On the surface, it appears to minimize slavery’s prevalence, painting it as a marginal practice with limited participation. It’s the kind of

IntroductionThe American criminal justice system as we know it today was not built in a vacuum—it was constructed on the foundations of slavery. After the Civil War, the 13th Amendment was hailed as the end of bondage, but its loophole left the door wide open for a new form of enslavement. That loophole allowed slavery

IntroductionIn the summer of 1917, America witnessed one of the deadliest racial massacres of the early 20th century. In East St. Louis, white mobs unleashed terror on Black neighborhoods—burning homes, killing men, women, and children, and leaving thousands homeless. The nation’s leaders did nothing. The press moved on. The killers went unpunished. In this climate

IntroductionMedgar Evers was more than a civil rights leader — he was a U.S. Army veteran who fought for his country in World War II, only to return home to Mississippi and be murdered for daring to fight for his people’s rights. His story is an undeniable piece of American history, one that belongs not

IntroductionMany people understand that slavery and plantations were tools of oppression, but far fewer realize that mental institutions in the South were also built to disappear Black lives. These so-called “hospitals” were never meant to heal — they were meant to silence, contain, and erase. From the mid-19th century onward, Black insane asylums became an

The Context of Racism and White SupremacyThe conversation begins with the recognition that we are operating inside a global system of racism and white supremacy, as described by Neely Fuller Jr. and Dr. Frances Cress Welsing. This system is not random—it is deliberate, structured, and designed to maintain white dominance. Within that context, policies, media

The Exhaustion of Being Black WorldwideBeing Black is not just a challenge in the United States or the South—it’s an exhausting reality almost everywhere on the planet. The struggle changes form from place to place, but the message is the same: your Blackness marks you before you speak a word. It’s one thing to navigate