The following series of posts are reprints from a series of articles first published in The Washington Daily News in 1968 by Betty Debold Abolitionists Were Tardy in Arriving [gview file=\”https://thedcvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Abolishionists.pdf\”]
The following series of posts are reprints from a series of articles first published in The Washington Daily News in 1968 by Betty Debold Slave Auction – \’50 Prime Negroes for Sale\’ [gview file=\”https://thedcvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Slave-Auction.pdf\”]
The following series of posts are reprints from a series of articles first published in The Washington Daily News in 1968 by Betty Debold America Is as Much Our Country as Yours [gview file=\”https://thedcvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/America-is.pdf\”]
The following series of posts are reprints from a series of articles first published in The Washington Daily News in 1968 by Betty Debold Negroes First Came Here with the Explorers [gview file=\”https://thedcvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Negroes-First-1.pdf\”]
Originally Published February 2, 2016 as \”The Black Family Business\” Back in 1958, August 22nd to be exact, the sweet melody and sound on the Saturn II jukebox could well have been \”I want to stop, and thank you, baby,\” as Ben and Virginia Ali opened the nation\’s now famous Ben\’s Chili Bowl. …
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If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. – Sun Tzu On August 12th a group of racist bigots will converge on the Nation’s Capital to protest the “loss of white America’s civil rights.” It’s not only one of the most absurd rallying calls …
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Today\’s cold, rainy, and soggy weather could have very well been the climate for the sentiment shared on this day back in 1862 by many non-enslaveable Washingtonians. Perhaps Frederick Douglass wrote about the attitudes of the people in a more descriptive memo to a friend after his oration on that Emancipation day. Douglass had written …
