READING! “My Paper.li” and Pandemic Note and Photo O’ Day 167

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

Pandemic Note and Photo O’ Day 159

1619 – Dutch ships lands in Jamestown, Virginia, carrying the first enslaved people to what would become the United States. … More

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

As I mentioned yesterday, I’m going to start each day’s “My Paper.li” post with a quote from Franciscan Father Richard … More

1890 – March Cook, a white advocate for black voting rights, is murdered in Jasper County, Mississippi, by white men … More

Happy Feast Day for St. Mary Magdalene. She is one of my three personal patron saints – the other two … More

1899 – Moments before his trial is to begin, a white mob whips Frank Embree, a black man, over 100 … More

1919 – After a black man accused of trying to rape a white woman is released, white mobs in Washington … More

“If you have ever watched power crumble, you know it happens very suddenly. One day a wall is up and … More

1954 – U.S. Border Patrol begins ‘Operation Wetback,’ in which agents deport more than one million people to Mexico and … More

Today has two important celebrations (so no Tuesday song today) First, it was on this date in 1789 that French … More

NOTE: I’m going to start including this countdown image as well b/c the gap between Election Day and 20 January … More

1863 – Poor white laborers riot in New York City against Union draft that exempts African Americans and anyone else … 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

2013 – Center for Investigative Reporting breaks story this week that the State of California improperly sterilized nearly 150 incarcerated … More

1964 – Five days after passage of the Civil Rights Act, white men beat nine black boys for trying to … More

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

I missed posting this yesterday, but I’m back at it today, on the Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time. And on … More

2016 – Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police officers shoot and kill Alton Sterling, a 37 year-old black man while he is … More