A second chance to correct a historical wrong 

It’s been 160 years since Americans were this polarized. In 2023 we are again in a pitched battle about voting rights, equality and equal protection. One hundred and sixty years ago the question...

Juneteenth: Time for a new view on the freeing of the last slaves in Texas

As we join Juneteenth celebrations throughout the country this week, marking the day in Texas the last slaves were informed that they were free, as intelligent consumers of history let’s look at...

The Time is Right: Starting a National Reparations Policy

Recently the State of California and two groups, Justice for Bruce’s Beach and Where Is My Land have taken mere talk about reparations and turned it into action.  In 1912, a Black couple, Willa...

Time for a new narrative: The One in Nine – Encouraging Hollywood and TV to do the right thing

In reading James Baldwin’s review “How One Black Man Came To Be an American: A Review of ‘Roots”’ in the New York Times, I got to thinking that because of Roots’ success...

The evolution of the Big Lie: An American tradition of denial

What is known today as “The Big Lie”—Republicans refusing to accept the results of a fair and free election— is a misnomer. Refusal to accept facts is not really a lie. But the...

What if Davey Crockett had been Black? Scratching the surface of historical whitewashing

If Davey Crockett had been black, would he have been celebrated in songs and TV shows created about him? Canadians may soon have to answer that question for their own Davey Crockett, a man named Jean Côtè....