Black History Month: Lyndon B. Johnson’s contributions to the Civil Rights Movement
The 1960s were a time of social unrest and a constant fight for equality. One president emerged as a pivotal figure in the progression of the Civil Rights Movement and that was Lyndon B. Johnson. When ...
The Westside Gazette1d
Black Loyalist Revolutionary War
Imagine you’re from one of the great West African empires: the Yoruba, whose intricate political systems rivaled those of ...
The Black Panther Party’s Under-Appreciated Legacy of Communal Love
R omantic love is not the only sort of love. There are alternative forms—including communal love, which is deeply rooted in ...
How some enslaved Black people stayed in Southern slaveholding states – and found freedom
For generations, the Underground Railroad has been the quintessential story of resistance against oppression. Yet, the story ...
Cardinal News2d
The hero of the Battle of Great Bridge was a sentry who took on an entire British platoon. He was also a free Black man.
History remembers Flora as the hero of the Battle of Great Bridge. A sentry facing an onslaught of volleys, he fired multiple ...