Archive for May, 2016

Quote Of The Day

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“My alma mater was books, a good library…I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.” -Malcolm X Tweet

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Black History Fact Of The Day

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Frederick Douglass was the minister to Haiti. He was appointed by President Harrison, and served from September 1889 to July 1891. Tweet

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Quote Of The Day

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“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” -Sun Tzu Tweet

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Public Burnings Of Black Americans

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America’s lynching of Black Americans was often accompanied by public burnings of Black people too. In her autobiography, “Crusade for Justice,” Ida B. Wells discusses lynch mobs burning black people alive. This is what she had to say about a Black man who had been falsely accused of a crime, and subsequently burned to death: […]

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Neely Fuller Jr. On How To Eliminate Mistreatment

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Quote Of The Day

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“Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo- obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.” -Angela Davis Tweet

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Mark Winston Griffith Of The Brooklyn Movement Center On Gentrification

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Gentrification: “What Used To Be Ours Is Now Theirs”

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The Attack On Black Communities: The Gentrification Of Bed Stuy

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“They won’t give you a loan to start a business…” “They’re not going to sell it to you.” Tweet

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Neely Fuller Jr.: “Stand By Your Work”

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