The Benevolent, Freemen Slave Owners of Virginia When you think of Black Americans who were slave owners…wait, have you ever thought about Black Americans as slave owners? The most famous example of a Black slave owner is Anthony Johnson and his slave John Casor. Anthony Johnson was brought to the…
Highlights First episode of Black Like Vanilla, home for Black conversations outside the simulation. Hosted by Swan. Ep. 101 features Ramsey Robinson, member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation Discussions on Covid + mental health, gas prices, Ukraine/Russia, wage theft, socialism and communism, and a 100 year old W.E.B.…
Before Cash Money Records, Death Row Records, No Limit Records, or hell, even before Motown, there was Black Swan Records, the second Black-owned and operated record company and the FIRST to succeed commercially. The first Black-owned and operated record company was Broome Special Phonograph Records that was established in 1919…
TL;DR:We are not our ancestors’ wildest dreams. In fact, we may be their nightmare. Scroll down to W.E.B. DuBois opinion piece from the May 1922 issue of “The Crisis” titled “Kicking Us Out” where he points out how the two-party system works AGAINST the Black progress movement and that Black…
TL;DR: Black people were not impacted the same as Whites during the 1918 flu pandemic however we are more vulnerable now. The low death rate for Blacks during the 1918 pandemic is partially due to segregation which kept our exposures limited due to “defacto” quarantines. Also, segregation meant that there…