Category Archives: history
Now What?: Beyond Juneteenth
Saturday was Juneteenth, the 156th anniversary of Union soldiers making their way to Galveston, Texas and Major General Gordon Granger informing thousands of enslaved people that they were finally freed from their bondage. Two and a half years earlier, on … Continue reading
Posted in African-American, culture, history, reparations, slavery
Tagged angel kyodo williams, Juneteenth, opinion, Tuere Sala
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And Still We Rise!: Amanda Gorman and the People’s Inauguration
Amanda Gorman, National Youth Poet Laureate, read her “The Hill We Climb” at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, Dr. Joseph Biden, Wednesday, January 20, 2021 Now 22-years-old, West LA raised Gorman was named Youth Poet … Continue reading
I’m Calling It! Person of the Year: Ms. Stacey Abrams!!
We’ve had a heck of a year—the dying dinosaur continues to roar. But civilization, true civilization, forges ahead. And Black women are leading the way. Case in point: Ms. Stacey Abrams, a beacon of a civil democratic society in which … Continue reading
Posted in African-American, black women, culture, film, history
Tagged Ella Fitzgerald, Fair Fight, Georgia, Person of the Year, Stacey Abrams
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Celebrating Black Creative Genius: Lonnie Holley
Amongst everything that’s been happening lately–though, of not unconnected from what’s been happening for centuries: continued pressure for racial equality in this country, finally, a national recognition of Juneteenth, the commemoration of one of the worst cases of white aggression … Continue reading
The Revolution Continues: Alligator Woods Now
In naming this blog Alligator Woods way back in 2009 I sought to uplift and share the revolutionary spirit that was alive in the enslaved men and women who declared liberty or death that fateful night in August 1791 in … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, African-American, Afro-Caribbean, culture, Haiti, history, literature
Tagged african diaspora, African-American, Haitian Revolution
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3rd Annual Well-Read Black Girl Festival
Dear Lover of the Word, You’ll remember that a few months ago I did a review of Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves (2018), an anthology by Glory Edim, founder of Well-Read Black Girl. I’ve been a big … Continue reading
2019
2019 will long be remembered by many of us, not only for the great voices that we’ve lost just this month, but also because it is a year of significant historical anniversaries and commemorations. Two that immediately come to mind are: … Continue reading
Posted in African-American, culture, history
Tagged 1619 Project, 2019, African-American, history, news, Red summer 1919
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