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On July 1, 1799 My Great Grandmother Trasie arrived on America’s shore from the country known today as Cameroon to be sold at the Charleston Slave Market at the age of 17 years old for $300 US Dollars. She was originally purchased by a White Woman Burnadette Martin, the wife […]
This comment is how I landed in twitter jail and the offensive word was “negro.” After receiving this notification I have to admit I had to look the word up. Despite my family’s extremely youthful DNA I am almost 50 years old. Negro is a respectful term that was […]
OLUALE KOSSOLO Reading Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon is a life altering experience. I do not know if you can read this cultural diamond and not be both wounded and wrapped in a healing salve at the same time. The narrative of Oluale Kossolo’s life known by the American Tongue as […]
If you google the word “nigger” these are the first three items to pop up: a contemptuous term for a black or dark-skinned person. The word was first included in a Merriam-Webster dictionary in 1864, at which time it was […]
“First, it appears that the family which evolved within the isolated world of the Negro folk will become increasingly disorganized. Modern means of communication will break down the isolation of the world of black folk, and, as long as the bankrupt system of Southern agriculture exists, Negro families will […]
By 1947 employment in the steel industry had declined by 80 % since 1887. I heard this @NPR story on the radio and I had to give a quick snapshot of what I heard. When you compare steel industry to slavery, more specifically the business of American Blacks as a […]
U.C.L.A basketball players from left, Cody Riley, LiAngelo Ball and Jalen Hill. Lucy Nicholson/ Reuters I have heard a lot of commentary on these young men and the opinions expressed here are my own. My knee jerk reaction to initially hearing this story was their mama’s did not raise them […]
There seems to be a new attack to the feminine from the Transgender community, specifically with Transgender Men that are now “Women” that want to redefine the female anatomy in the name of equality and inclusiveness in feminism. My response to that is hell to the no, GTFOH! I […]
Congresswoman Karen Bass wrote an article in the Thursday, January 12, 2017 edition of the L.A. Watts Times, the issue released the weekend preceding Martin Luther King Day. I stumbled upon this paper at the Wingstop located on Crenshaw and Coliseum in Los Angeles one night that I wanted some […]
President Elect Donald Trump US Senator Kama D. Harris US Representative Karen Bass CA State Assembly Member Sebastian Ridley-Thomas LA County Superior Court Judge Debra R. Archuleta LA County Superior Court Judge Efrain M. Aceves LA County Superior Court Judge Susan J. Townsend LA County Superior Court Judge Kin L. […]