1955 – Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, white members of the Ku Klux Klan, abduct 14 year old Emmett Till … More
Tag: Racial Justice
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
Pandemic Photo O’ Day 144
2014 – Black workers at Memphis, Tennessee, cotton gin file discrimination lawsuit after white supervisor uses racial slurs and threatens … More
READING! “My Paper.li” for Tuesday, July 28th
As I mentioned yesterday, I’m going to start each day’s “My Paper.li” post with a quote from Franciscan Father Richard … More
Pandemic – Marble League 2020 Update – Articles and Photos O’ Day 133
1890 – March Cook, a white advocate for black voting rights, is murdered in Jasper County, Mississippi, by white men … More
READING! “My Paper.li” for Wednesday, July 22nd
Happy Feast Day for St. Mary Magdalene. She is one of my three personal patron saints – the other two … More
Pandemic Video and Photos O’ Day 130
1899 – Moments before his trial is to begin, a white mob whips Frank Embree, a black man, over 100 … More
Pandemic Articles and Photos O’ Day 127
1919 – After a black man accused of trying to rape a white woman is released, white mobs in Washington … More
Presence Podcast: “Words For Now and Later: K is for KILLING” and Web Resources to Support Product Boycotts
“If you have ever watched power crumble, you know it happens very suddenly. One day a wall is up and … More
Pandemic Article, Video, and Photo O’ Day 123
1954 – U.S. Border Patrol begins ‘Operation Wetback,’ in which agents deport more than one million people to Mexico and … More
READING! “My Paper.li” for Tuesday, July 14th
Today has two important celebrations (so no Tuesday song today) First, it was on this date in 1789 that French … More
Pandemic Marble League 2020 Update and Photo O’ Day 122
NOTE: I’m going to start including this countdown image as well b/c the gap between Election Day and 20 January … More
Pandemic Photos O’ Day 121
1863 – Poor white laborers riot in New York City against Union draft that exempts African Americans and anyone else … More
Pandemic Articles, Video, Marble League 2020 Update and Photo O’ Day 120
2012 – Report shows one of every 13 voting age African Americans is disenfranchised (four times more than non-black citizens); … More
Pandemic Photo O’ Day 119
1929 – White mobs threaten black residents of North Platte, Nebraska, causing 200 people to flee their homes after a … More
Pandemic Video, Articles, and Photos O’ Day 117
2013 – Center for Investigative Reporting breaks story this week that the State of California improperly sterilized nearly 150 incarcerated … More
Pandemic Article and Photos O’ Day 115
1964 – Five days after passage of the Civil Rights Act, white men beat nine black boys for trying to … More
Pandemic Articles, Videos and Photos O’ Day 114
1919 – White people riot in African American neighborhood of Dublin, Georgia and leave two people dead, during nationwide violence … More
READING! “My Paper.li” for Sunday, July 5th
I missed posting this yesterday, but I’m back at it today, on the Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time. And on … More
Pandemic Articles, Video, Marble League 2020 Update and Photos O’ Day 113
2016 – Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police officers shoot and kill Alton Sterling, a 37 year-old black man while he is … More