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Reparations 101: Harriet Tubman and the Reparations debate

Jun 29, 2019 | History, Memory, News & Events

I wrote the piece below a year ago which I am reposting because it shows how even Harriet Tubman’s story speaks to the rationale for Reparations. Almost 200,000 slaves fought in the US Civil War and less than half of them received pensions for their war...

Reparations 101: Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask

Jun 19, 2019 | History, Memory, News & Events

Today is Juneteenth Day. Juneteenth is the day that many African Americans celebrate as Emancipation Day because it was on June 19, 1865 that Union troops entered Galveston, Texas and freed the enslaved. Though the Emancipation Proclamation was issued on January 1...

All hands on deck: World War 2 and Remembering A Black Female Battalion

Jun 9, 2019 | History, Memory

I love remembering people who have made a difference in history so this week meant a lot to me. This past week, there were numerous commemorations of D-Day. D-Day 75 was top billing all over the news and rightly so. One of these days, I think I will make the trip...

Australia’s ABC Radio Interview: Dred Scott’s Unrelenting quest for freedom

Jun 1, 2019 | History, Memory

Dred Scott (1795 – 1858), plaintiff in the infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) case at the Supreme Court of the United States, commissioned by a “group of Negro citizens” and presented to the Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, in 1888. One...

The Unforgettable Harriet Tubman

May 27, 2019 | History, Memory, News & Events

Public Domain; From left Harriet Tubman with her husband, adopted daughter and rescued slaves, New York Times. In honor of Memorial Day, I am revisiting a blog I wrote over two years ago on the unforgettable Harriet Tubman. Many may not know that in addition to being...