#06 – BLV’s Top 20 Black Moments of 2020: Leticia ‘Mothaf*ckin’ Lewis & All Things “Lovecraft Country”
Warning: This post contains spoilers.
On This Day: Thurgood Marshall Was Sworn In As The First Black Supreme Court Justice
American Democracy is in shambles. I do not think this is a bad thing (will get in to that in a later post). The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the modern day Susan B. Anthony, has left a void in the Supreme Court that President Pumpkin Spice,…
REMINDER: The Tulsa Race Riot Was Not the Exception…It Was the Rule
On Sunday, HBO debuted its highly anticipated series, Watchmen, set in a alternate contemporary reality within the United States where superheroes and masked vigilantes are outlawed for the use of their violent methods, but still gather to start a revolutions while others work to stop them. But that is not…
America’s First Boxing Superstar: Tom Molineaux, the Slave Who Boxed His Way to Freedom
By now we should all know about Jack Johnson, who was the First Black heavyweight boxing champion BUT have you ever heard of Tom Molineaux, who was the first Black person to compete for the heavyweight championship AND was America’s first international boxing superstar? Molineaux, who was born into slavery…
Respect Your Elders: The Story of the Barefoot Prophet (Elder Clayhorn Martin)
You ever come across a photo where the imagery is so layered that you almost feel it telling you it’s story? That’s what I felt, what I still feel, when I look at Harlem Renaissance era photographer James VanDerZee‘s 1929 “Barefoot Prophet”, a photo of Elder Clayhorn Martin, also known…