Four Little Girls
Sunday morning, September 15, 1963. Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham Alabama. The Klu Klux Klan made it unequivocally clear that our children were not going to be spared in the war to maintain white supremacy, that our churches would be targets of unmitigated hate. Everything that we held sacred–our babies, our place of worship–would be […]
What can ordinary citizens expect if…
…black officers can’t expect back up from their white fellow officers? Not much. That’s why we need a civilian review board. But what recourse do African American officers have? Read the racist rant one black police officer found in his workplace mailbox.
Bringing Black August to a Close
Thanks to historian Ray Winbush, a poignant reminder of the assaults on Black People/Panthers/Community/Culture/Souls/Etc. “Late on the night of August 30, Frank Rizzo, Police Commissioner of Philadelphia and his aides were preparing to strike directly against the Black Panthers. By 2 a.m., the department was assembling 100 men, all of them experienced marksmen, to be […]