White Supremacy

White Wednesday: The Day Homegrown Terrorists Were Given the Keys to the U.S. Capitol

January 10, 2021

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I tried to take my time gathering my thoughts about what transpired on Wednesday, January 6th, 2021. I needed time to allow it to breath. It still hasn’t been aired out appropriately. On January 6th, 2021, White supremacists stormed the U.S. Capitol, at the urging of President Pumpkin Spice, in…

Hidden Figures: Meet Isaac Myers, the Grandfather of Union Organizing for Black Workers

September 7, 2020

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As many of us enjoy this Labor Day holiday, I thought it would be fitting to acknowledge a pioneer to the Black Labor Movement. A. Philip Randolph’s Brotherhood Of Sleeping Car Porters is typically looked at as the first Black union to be recognized by a national body in 1925,…