Sir Godfrey GreggWHY YOU SHOULD CARE Because music can start a revolution. Every Sunday, the stalls of Tianguis Cultural del Chopo, a flea market in north Mexico City, are filled with punk vinyl records, T-shirts and Doc Martens. In the anarcho-punk corner, badges, pirated records and fanzines are on display,…
Sir Godfrey GreggBY: NATASHA GREGG THE AGUADILLA REVOLT OF 1795 – The success of the Haitian Revolution in 1791 glaringly reveal to the colonial powers in the Caribbean the real threat of slave uprisings and the costs of self-liberation. After Saint Domingue’s success in gaining independence, all colonial powers in their…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggWHY YOU SHOULD CARE A Soviet-controlled “Negro Republic” in America was once more than just a communist pipe dream. For at least one group, the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, represented a promising marketing opportunity in the heart of America. “Blacks in #Ferguson, there’s an alternative to this indignity:…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggValante Latrice February 13 at 9:39am · Black history 101 Mary Turner (died 19 May 1918) was a married black woman and mother of two who was lynched by a white mob in Lowndes County, Georgia, for having spoken out in protest ! According to investigator Walter F. White…
Read moreSir Godfrey Gregg23 photos from the ’30s and ’40s that prove your grandparents were so much more badass than you. How a ‘wonky’ version of Mr. Potato Head is raising awareness for food waste. Syphilis was a scary epidemic in the 16th century. One doctor made it less so. Your grandparents…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBarbados events to celebrate life and legacy of Fidel Castro Two major public educational events have been planned for this Thursday and Friday to commemorate the life and legacy of the late Cuban president Fidel Castro. The first of these events will be a panel discussion on…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggSamuel Sharpe was the main instigator of the 1831 Slave Rebellion, which began on the Kensington Estate in St. James and which was largely instrumental in bringing about the abolition of slavery.Because of his intelligence and leadership qualities, Sam Sharpe became a “daddy”, or leader of the native Baptists…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggOne Stunning Photo Is Turning America’s Racist History on Its Head By Zak Cheney Rice 2 years ago The most polarizing photo of Tyler Shields’ career shows a naked black man hanging a Klansman. Source: Tyler Shields The Ku Klux Klan is not happy about it, Shields says. Nor…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggThis Day In History: The First Group of Black Americans Voyage Back to Africa. An old ship vessel The Voyage Back Home On this day, Feb. 6, 1820, the very first group of Black Americans returned to Africa. A group of nearly 90 brave men and women voyaged…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggWHY YOU SHOULD CARE Because she should be included in Women’s History Month. The Rev. David Graham feared that a mob was coming to burn down his church. The community meeting he had organized to protest the killing of a young Black boy by a policeman had stirred…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggWHY YOU SHOULD CARE Because this extraordinary World War I soldier is still being left out of the story 100 years later. You never know who you’re sharing an elevator with — and back when Rockefeller Center still had elevator operators, it was easy to ignore the elderly Black…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBritish lawmakers to debate Trump’s state visit The president of Singapore, Tony Tan Keng Yam, rides in a carriage with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II during a state visit in October 2014. (Toby Melville/Reuters) By Karla Adam February 19 at 10:14 AM LONDON — British lawmakers on Monday will debate…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggVIDEO: DO THE POLICE TODAY REMIND YOU OF SLAVE PATROLS DURING THE 1700S? BY JAE JONES – FEBRUARY 18, 2017 – DOCUMENTARY, LATEST POSTS, RACISM, SLAVERY During #slavery there were many African-Americans who fought back against those who were trying to imprison them. These individuals were not going to…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggVIRGIL LAMAR WARE, A 13-YEAR-OLD UNSUNG SOLDIER OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT Virgil Lamar Ware, known as Virgil Ware, was born on December 6, 1949. He grew up in Pratt City, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. The third of six children, Ware was an excellent student who enjoyed playing…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggThe Rev. Victor White at the railroad tracks that divide New Iberia. RUDDY ROYE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES The Preacher and the Sheriff A young, shackled black man is shot to death — and the police say he killed himself. The resulting investigation has pitted the victim’s…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggLYNCHING OF PREGNANT 19-YEAR-OLD MARY TURNER Mary Turner was a 19-year-old black woman born in 1899 to Perry Graham and Elizabeth Johnson in Brooks County, Georgia. When Turner was eight months pregnant, she was murdered after she publicly denounced the unlawful extrajudicial killing of her husband, Hazel Turner. On…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBY: NATASHA GREGG THE BLOODY BAY REBELLION – Prior to the Treaty of Paris that ceded the island of Tobago to Britain in 1763, the island had remained neutral between the French and British. Once Tobago was in the hands of Britain, the colonial powers wasted no time in…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggHenry Highland Garnett (1815-1882) was one of the most prominent black leaders throughout the antebellum period and a leading figure in the American Anti-Slavery Society. An escaped slave, Garnett attained national notoriety when, at the 1843 National Negro Convention in New York, he called upon slaves to murder their…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggThe Catholic Cathedral of the Assumption in St. Vincent and the Grenadines DID YOU KNOW? “Built in 1823, damaged in 1875; repaired and enlarged in 1877, 1891, two wings added in 1930. Inside the startling exterior is a labyrinth of school, church and presbytery. Fountains, archways, courtyards are also…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggTHE BACK STORY: MEET THE MAN BEHIND THIS POWERFUL IMAGE You’ve likely seen the picture of this runaway slave exposing his scourged back 100 times. Besides the obvious, did you ever wonder how or why he endured such horrendous treatment? The true story of Mr. Oliver Gordon’s brutal ordeal…
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