Never Forget: 69 Black Boys Were Padlocked Into A Dormitory Where A Mysterious Fired Started – 21 Burned To Death
For the last 5 decades, every year has been 1959 for Frank Lawrence. For the majority of his life, Lawrence has been trying to solve...
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Never Forget: The Orangeburg Massacre: 3 Black Students Killed, 28 Injured by Police
Recalling the event decades later, Robert Lee Davis remembered the chaotic noise and fear that permeated the night of February 8, 1968. He was among the...
Never Forget: 30 Black Girls Were Imprisoned In A Hot Georgia Stockade For 45 Days For Trying To Buy Movie Tickets
In 1963, more than a dozen Black girls, between the ages of 12-15, were arrested and locked in a dilapidated stockade for two months without...
Never Forget: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre: North Carolina’s Deadly KKK Shootout
Thirty-eight years ago this month, on November 3, 1979, a march in Greensboro, NC turned into a massacre when members of the Communist Workers’ Party...
Never Forget: In 1965, The City of Charlottesville Demolished a Thriving Black Neighborhood
Recently, the world watched racist whites descend on the town of Charlottesville, Virginia, last Saturday morning proclaiming to want to save their heritage. Wielding tiki...
Never Forget: The Execution of Lena Baker
Lena Baker was born in a former slave cabin, about five miles southwest of Cuthbert in Randolph County, Georgia. In 1944, at the age of...
Never Forget: The Man Who Killed 10 Million Black People
In the heart of Africa lies the Congo. Quenched by its flowing river, furnished by meandering hills, and endowed with a myriad of natural resources,...
Black History: The Black Women Who Helped America Reach the Moon
We have all heard the saying, “Behind every great man is a great woman,” well the NASA astronauts are no exception to this. The women...
Woman Who Caused Emmett Till’s Murder Admits to Lying
Emmett Louis Till was a Black teenager who was lynched in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. The...
Never Forget: The 1998 Savage Lynching Of James Byrd Jr.
On June 7, 1998, a Black man in Jasper, TX was ‘lynched by dragging’ because he accepted a ride from three white men, one of...
Never Forget: The Horrific Lynching of Mary Turner and her Baby
The chain of events that led to the lynching of Mary Turner started in May of 1918 on Hampton Smith’s plantation in Brooks County, Georgia....
Never Forget: America’s Largest Slave Revolt Lead by Charles Deslondes
Over two-hundred years ago in 1811, the largest slave revolt in American history took place in New Orleans, Louisiana. During this revolt, about 500 enslaved...
Never Forget: 10 Year-Old Clifford Glover Shot In The Back By NYPD
On April 28, 1973, a 10 year-old was executed on a street in South Jamaica, Queens. His name was Clifford Glover. He was walking with his step-father, when a car pulled...
Never Forget: Race Riot of 1919 in Omaha -The Lynching of Will Brown
In the late 1800’s, Omaha, Nebraska, was a booming western city, that was soon to become number one in the world in livestock meat production....
Never Forget: The Devil’s Punchbowl – 20,000 Freed Slaves Died After Being Forced Into Post Slavery Concentration Camp
History has always made concentration camps to be synonymous with the atrocities of Nazi Germany. But, America has its own dirty secrets about the use...
