Category Archives: Slavery

More on “Un-Banned” Black History Month: Henry Louis Gates Jr. On the Return of the “Lost Cause” Censorship, and the Need for Real Debate on Black Issues in America

[NOTE: Henry Louis Gates could well be the best professor I never had. I was first knocked over by his intellect and insight when I found his 1993 article that challenged the use of what was then newly-called “Critical Race Theory” as justification for repression of free speech by essentially private, often mob action, now … Continue reading More on “Un-Banned” Black History Month: Henry Louis Gates Jr. On the Return of the “Lost Cause” Censorship, and the Need for Real Debate on Black Issues in America

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Breaking: Could the 13th Amendment Revive Abortion Rights?

Judge suggests abortion might be protected by 13th Amendment despite Supreme Court ruling By Dan Mangan A federal judge in Washington, D.C., suggested in a court order in a criminal case against a group of anti-abortion activists that the federal right to abortion might still be protected by the Constitution’s 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery. … Continue reading Breaking: Could the 13th Amendment Revive Abortion Rights?

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Black History Month Lives Here: Zora Neale Hurston: Pioneering Anthropologist & Author

How  novelist Zora Neale Hurston transformed American anthropology A 2025 documentary, “Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming Space,” focuses on Hurston’s work as one of the country’s first Black woman ethnographers and filmmakers From The Washington Post By DeNeen L. Brown
 — January 17, 2023 In the late 1920s, Zora Neale Hurston, who would become one of … Continue reading Black History Month Lives Here: Zora Neale Hurston: Pioneering Anthropologist & Author

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“Diamond” of “Diamond & Silk” – Black Super-Trump Stars, Passes Away

[NOTE: At the end of this set of excerpts, Silk closes with a declaration that goes well past enthusiasm, and surpasses loyalty, to become an effusion of sheer devotion that sounds more religious than political. The clinical phrase “personality cult” hardly does justice to it. For outsiders, it should be food for thought: they are facing … Continue reading “Diamond” of “Diamond & Silk” – Black Super-Trump Stars, Passes Away

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