Sir Godfrey GreggHow American History Erases Mass Killings Against Native Americans At the point when the media talks about a mass slaughtering in the United States just like the most noticeably awful in our history yet disregard other verifiable mass killings is a section to delete Native American genocide.Ever since Columbus…
Sir Godfrey GreggRead the New York Times’ first profile of Barack Obama Updated by Jenée Desmond-Harrisjenee.desmondharris@voxmedia.com Feb 6, 2015, 1:20pm EST Decades before most Americans knew his name, the New York Times ran its first profile of Barack Obama. On February 6, 1990, it announced (in a headline that’s now pretty dated), “First…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggHarvard Lays Bare Its Historical Ties To Slavery Author and The Atlantic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates suggested institutions pay financial reparations for “their role in slavery.” Harvard University publicly recognized its deep historical ties to slavery Friday during an eye-opening conference, reports ABC News. At a conference that Harvard organized to…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggThe 1963 March on Washington was a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement. More than 250,000 people joined in peaceful demonstration for racial and economic equality. Their clarion call helped usher in sweeping civil rights legislation and a sea change in public opinion, and the event endures today…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggMeet the 12-Year-old Boy Who Was Murdered for Fighting Against Modern Day Slavery As the Civil War drew to a close and during the nascent stages of emancipation, those who had been thrust into slavery and putatively freed held a precarious place outside the society of their enslavement. Thus,…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggDevil’s Punchbowl — An American Concentration Camp So Horrific It was Erased from History Say the words concentration camps, and most will surmise the topic surrounds World War II and the Nazis; but the hard labor, constant threat of death, and barbarism these microcosmic hells presented weren’t unique to…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggTHE STORY OF THE SOUTH’S FIRST BLACK MILLIONAIRE WHY YOU SHOULD CARE Because he went from slave to kingpin in the middle of the segregated American South. Join OZY as we travel through all 50 states to uncover the challenges and meet the innovators reshaping a country that’s more…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggMexican lawyer asks Trump to deport drug lord “El Chapo” By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXICO CITY — Mar 1, 2017, 4:37 PM ET The Associated PressFILE – In this March 4, 2016, file photo, Jose Luis Gonzalez Meza, lawyer who has worked on behalf of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman,…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggPrivate, Public, and Vigilante Violence, Part 4 By Keri Leigh Merritt February 12, 2017 1 Convicts in North Carolina. (Courtesy of Millions for Reparations) This essay is Part Four of a four part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first part examined private violence, the…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggThe Great Hanging, at Gainesville, Texas, of 41 suspected Unionists during the Civil War in October, 1862. This essay is Part Three of a four part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first part examined private violence, the second part looked at public violence, the…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggBranding Slaves, 19th century. Source: William O. Blake, The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade (Columbus, 1857), p. 97. This essay is Part Two of a four-part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first part examined private violence, the second part looks at public…
Read moreSir Godfrey Gregg“Cruelties of slavery.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1835-05. This essay is the first post in a four-part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first part will examine private violence, the second part looks at public violence, the third at vigilante violence, and the…
Read moreSir Godfrey GreggMalcolm X in the Courtroom By Garrett Felber February 25, 2017 0 This post is part of our online forum, “Remembering Malcolm,” edited by Garrett Felber. Malcolm X. (Source: AP Photo/Eddie Adams) In one of the most famous passages in Malcolm X’s Autobiography, Malcolm tells his English teacher that he wants to…
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