May 4th, 1961, thirteen brave individuals boarded two buses in Washington, DC with the goal of traveling through the Deep Jim Crow South to New Orleans, to test the 1960 Supreme Court ruling of Boynton v. Virginia, which declared segregated facilities for interstate passengers illegal. The “Freedom Rides” were initiated…
*Updated from January 28, 2018 Black Like Vanilla IG post This is Aaron Dixon, founding member of the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party, on the cover of the October 1968 edition of Seattle Magazine. The Seattle chapter was one of the first Black Panther chapters authorized outside of California and…
We often hear about the men of the Civil Rights Movement, but rarely enough light is shined on the women who stood front and center in leading it. One of those women who was monumental in jump-starting the wave of activism we credit Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his…
In the era of Me Too, especially for black women whose cries are rarely heard, and especially when Black women are disappearing and/or being killed at an alarming rate, it’s important to know history…and the history of defending yourself as a women against sexual assault, being heard, and fighting against…
Herbert Lee, a 50 year-old black man was a cotton and dairy farmer in Amite County, Mississippi. Lee had a wife and nine children. He was a quiet man who regularly attended NAACP meetings at a neighboring farm, during a time when receiving threats and harassment were common when doing…