I\’ve been a hockey fan practically all my life. My father\’s love of sports drove him to watch every form of competitive sport. The one that stood out the most to me was hockey. At the time I thought it was a sport for whites. Over time I slowly began to see Black players here […]
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I\’ve been a hockey fan practically all my life. My father\’s love of sports drove him to watch every form of competitive sport. The one that stood out the most to me was hockey. At the time I thought it was a sport for whites. Over time I slowly began to see Black players here
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I\’m going to pull the thread one more time. Writing about the slave trade in D.C. led me to the story of Philp Reed. His marker at Harmony Memorial Park was beside Solomon Northup, the author of 12 Years a Slave. The connection lies in the fact that Northup, a free Black man, was kidnapped
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The Awakening I never really saw myself as one who kept abreast of historical events that involved racial inequity or the politics associated with it. That is, and I am embarrassed to say, was not until way into my adult years. Significant points in time were when; you guessed it – when America got its
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Last week we kicked off Black History month with a little-known fact about Slave Markets in DC. We continue this week with a story of one of those enslaved Washingtonians\’ who played a major part in two of the most iconic and historic landmarks in DC. The statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square drew
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Let\’s kick off Black History Month with a scarcely reported fact about our nation\’s capital – slavery. The District\’s proximity to Maryland and Virginia, both slave states, made it an active and profitable slave depot. The very mall which fueled the January 6th insurrection was a major marketplace for slave trading. It\’s probably also befitting
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Until now, talk of reparations conjured up 40 acres and a mule in my mind. That\’s not to say that I don\’t understand the gravity of the situation. It does mean that it harkens back to an archaic concept bypassing other opportunities America has had to make Black America whole. There\’s a saying about being
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One of the last images of John Lewis was taken when he made his way to Lafayette Square to be a part of the Black Lives Matter movement. In the middle of his cancer treatment, this man who devoted his life to civil rights had one last glimpse on the road he helped pave. Hopefully,
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Maybe we can look back to December 8, 1969, as the day the police decided to militarize itself against black people. There\’s an Opinion piece on the Los Angeles Times website that pronounces that \”50 years ago, LAPD raided the Black Panthers. SWAT teams have been targeting Black communities ever since\”. This article dissects how
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