Pandemic – Marble League 2020 Update – Photo O’ Day 152

1955 – Black WWII veteran Lamar Smith is shot and killed in front of the Brookhaven, Mississippi, courthouse for urging … More

READING! “My Paper.li” for Tuesday, August 11th

As I mentioned in yesterday’s “My Paper.li” post, I’m changing how I do this week-daily feature. So here goes today’s… … More

1988 – More than 45 years after internment of Japanese Americans began, the U.S. government authorizes reparations payments to the … More

2014 – Eight days after graduating from high school, black teenager Michael Brown is shot and killed by a white … More

1919 – After a black teenager is killed for drifting into a ‘white’ section of Lake Michigan, black protests in … More

1967 – Detroit Uprising ends: sparked by complaints about police brutality and racial inequality.. It left more than 1100 people … More

Ahh… Thursday. Major League Baseball has it’s opening day today, so this classic is in order: ########## Here’s the excellent … More

It’s Tuesday during a tense week in which deeply troubling things are happening in Portland, OR. A must read article … More

2016 – Days after shooting black therapist Charles Kinsey and handcuffing him as he lay bleeding on the ground, police … More

I don’t usually have just one article in a post – especially one that is IMPORTANT and thus pinned to … More

1863 – The 54th Massachusetts Infantry, the nation’s first all-African American regiment, leads an attack on Confederate troops at Fort … More

I hope the unique photo in the heading caught your attention today. It’s from a fascinating project which I’ll describe … More

2012 – Report shows one of every 13 voting age African Americans is disenfranchised (four times more than non-black citizens); … More

1929 – White mobs threaten black residents of North Platte, Nebraska, causing 200 people to flee their homes after a … More

1860 – A half century after Congress banned importation of enslaved people, the ship Clotilda lands in Mobile, Alabama, as … More

It’s 07/07 and another Tuesday and another song about Tuesdays: ++++++++++++ Here’s the excellent sources that I feature each day … More

I’ve not posted an “IMPORTANT” notice which is pinned to the top of the page. This podcast deserves this status … More

1919 – White people riot in African American neighborhood of Dublin, Georgia and leave two people dead, during nationwide violence … More

1959 – Prince Edward County, Virginia, avoids integration by closing public schools for years. 2011 – White teens kill James … More

1855 – Celia, a 19 year-old enslaved black woman whose white “owner” repeatedly raped her, kills him during an attempted … More