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This exhibit features a video along with many links to resources that can help you better understand the phenomenon of lynchings. The video give a brief but very complete explanation of how and why racial terror lynchings took place and how they set the stage for current racial injustices.
Seemingly, African intelligence and innovative inventions such as the pyramids of Giza, still haunt the psyche and mindset of the narcissistic beliefs that guide white supremacy and world domination. Especially and more so does this hatred and racist behaviors delve into and at, abuse for the bodies of the African; mind, spirit, body, intuition prowess and soul, if allowed to continue its evil reign worldover over. Therories allowed to float throughout the worlds rhetoric unchecked and never validated is sad for those that perpetrate such nonsense and imposed disbelief in the strength and superiority of another culture other than white, definitely perceived as a threat unstoppable.
By Yesha Callahan, The Root If you took a look at the writers’ room of some of your favorite television shows, you’d be hard-pressed to find a black person, and…
Martin Luther King Jr. Day became a federal holiday in 1986.
The YWCA of Southeast Wisconsin presents ABHM Head Griot Reggie Jackson with its 2015 Eliminating Racism Award at its annual Evening to Promote Racial Justice. Included is Reggie’s bio and story of how he became involved in this work.
By Mitch Smith, New York Times Two outside investigators looking into the death of Tamir Rice have concluded that a Cleveland police officer, Tim Loehmann, acted reasonably in deciding…
In a new article in The Atlantic, jerks are highlighted as the real stars of the corporate world. But corporate “jerks” might not be so cool if they weren’t also white and male.
School teacher Warren Read never suspected that the beloved great-grandfather he had put on a pedestal had actively taken part in murdering three young African Americans in Duluth, MN in 1920. His discovery of the truth shook him and sent him on a journey to rebalance his world.
Some stories of the thousands of slaves who freed their families by escaping to Union lines. Why and how they came to settle and thrive in rural Wisconsin.
Alex Haley, author of Roots and other groundbreaking racial texts, was born in Ithaca in 1921.