Category: Academic
Re: Emancipation
Before Lincoln’s signature had even dried on the Emancipation Proclamation, African-Americans were starting schools public and private. Education, no matter how remedial meant freedom for African-Americans because it was one step closer to be put on level ground with their … Continue reading Re: Emancipation
Re: Grounds for rebellion
Cities have a difference of industry than the rural antebellum. A city is where raw material and natural resources were sent to be refined and sold to mass market. Instead of cutlasses, sacks of cotton, and shackles, African slaves had … Continue reading Re: Grounds for rebellion
To live and die in colonialist America as an African is testimony of the elasticity of a people.
One should never forfeit any parts of their identity to qualify for full transaction of citizenship.
Re: Projects
Public housing is not the local, state, or federal government’s gift to Blacks after centuries of inadequate housing opportunities. Ironically public housing does provide “affordable” housing to the impoverished (which still come from their taxes as citizens). However Black residents in urban projects are … Continue reading Re: Projects
African Americans were adding lightening to the thunder of a voice that was objecting to abjection.
Re: Black church
The benevolent yet persistent tactics of the Black church have effectively flexed on the system of White Supremacy in the United States. Symbolically, legally, and economically the church achieved palpable Civil Rights advancement both guilt free and hands cleans of … Continue reading Re: Black church
…Racially, Africans and those of African descent were least empowered in every field besides labor…A controlled work force is controlled economics.
Jewel Brooks 