Tag: USA

  • More propitious than any other moment in my lifetime

    MarketWatch: “Black Americans whose ancestors were enslaved have been excluded from full citizenship in the United States for the last 247 years — and granting them full citizenship will cost between $13 trillion and $14 trillion, economist William ‘Sandy’ Darity told a conference of fellow U.S. economists last week. […]”

  • We aren’t organizing to die but we may have to

    The Atlantic: “Knowing that my heritage, and therefore my own children’s, was bound up in those walls, I felt a responsibility to understand what had happened there. I had to go back to the Shrine of the Black Madonna. I had to go home. […]”

  • I was living out a series of ideas about myself

    New York Times: “At the end of the workday, he would finish off a roll of black-and-white film with self-portraits for his grandmother back home, to demonstrate that despite having been a sickly child, he was in robust health. Showing off in front of the painted backdrops he used for his clients, he would put […]

  • It happened not just in Tuskegee but here

    Cardinal News: “There were 355 pilots who actually deployed with the 332nd,” said Smith, the fighter group designation for the Tuskegee Airmen. “There are only three left today. There is just not a lot of opportunity for us to hear firsthand exactly what they did, what their accomplishments were, what their legacy has been, so […]

  • A moment for joy, thanks giving and praise

    Louisville Journal-Courier: “It was a time of very mixed emotions,” Harris said. “There was some anxiety and fear, but it was also a day of jubilee, so there was happiness and joy. The proclamation set enslaved people on a new path, to freedom that they had never really known. They didn’t know what freedom would […]