Pandemic Photo O’ Day 172

1885 – White miners upset about competition for jobs kill 28 Chinese workers in Rock Springs, Wyoming, causing hundreds to … More

Pandemic Photo O’ Day 170

1966 – Alabama passes legislation barring school districts from agreeing to desegregate after decision in Brown vs. Board of Education … More

2005 – Hurricane Katrina devastates the U.S. Gulf Coast; the subsequent disaster response is criticized for mistreating many severely impacted … More

1955 – Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, white members of the Ku Klux Klan, abduct 14 year old Emmett Till … More

1874 – Mob of 400 masked men on horseback armed with shotguns kidnaps 16 black men from jail in Gibson … More

1989 – White mob in Bensonhurst, New York, murders black teenager Yusef Hawkins for visiting a white girl. August 23rd … More

1905 – White people riot in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, after Charles Miller, a black man enters a public restaurant. August 22nd … More

As I mentioned yesterday, my schedule is getting busier as the start of teaching approaches and I’m trying to work … More

My schedule is getting busier as the start of teaching approaches and I’m trying to work as many hours with … More

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

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

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

1930 – Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith are lynched in Marion, Indiana; 16 year-old James Cameron survives the attack and … More

1965 – More than a century after black Americans are granted voting rights, the federal Voting Rights Act is enacted … More

2014 – Black workers at Memphis, Tennessee, cotton gin file discrimination lawsuit after white supervisor uses racial slurs and threatens … More

1964 – Bodies of murdered civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman are discovered in a Mississippi … More

Happy new week and new month (since the last time I posted this “My Paper.li” feature!) As I mentioned last … More

2019 – Suspected white nationalist commits mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, killing 22 people and wounding 24. August 3rd … More