Recy Taylor, 97, passed away yesterday. As a black woman living in Alabama, she went #MeToo when doing so could have gotten her killed. In 1944, then a 24-year-old sharecropper’s wife with young children, she stood up against six white men who abducted her at gunpoint and gang-raped her. They [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Civil Rights’
July 7th, 2016 - 1:08 am § in Misc.
When was John Lewis Arrested?
55-years ago today, John Lewis was released from jail, after being arrested for using a “white” restroom.[...]
April 9th, 2015 - 1:01 am § in America
Why Gay People Need to Use Christian Bakeries
Commentary by David Preston Non-Christians and straight people alike have a hard time understanding the gay wedding cake issue. Even gay-friendly straight folks don’t get it. They think it’s about non-discrimination, but it’s not really about that at all. It’s about acceptanc[...]
March 6th, 2015 - 1:28 pm § in America
Shades of CIA: The Chicago Police Department’s black site
Chicago’s police admire the CIA so much they’re emulating them. What they like best about the CIA, of course, is their proclivity for bypassing and nullifying all those pesky legal rights that suspects and defendants are supposed to have. “The Chicago police department operates an[...]
January 28th, 2015 - 11:47 am § in Uncategorized
South Carolina judge sets aside 1961 civil rights convictions
A South Carolina judge has righted a historic injustice by clearing the records of 9 black men convicted in 1961 of trespassing and breach of peace for sitting at a “whites only” lunch counter in Rock Hill, South Carolina. The men — a CORE organizer and 8 college students at the ti[...]
January 17th, 2015 - 8:30 am § in America
When citizens were heroes and cops were villains
“Go back home, you n***** lovers.” Those were the first words Steve Marlo, now 87 and living in Marysville, heard when he arrived at the Birmingham airport in March 1965. They were spoken by a burly sheriff’s deputy and would be repeated many times by other men wearing police uniforms in t[...]
Remembering a Jewish Hero From The Sixties
Michael Schwerner is one of the heroes we celebrate in our family Haggadah. Now, 50 years after James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael “Mickey” Schwerner were slain in Mississippi by members of the Ku Klux Klan, Schwermer’s his martyrdom has been recognized by President Obama’[...]
November 2nd, 2014 - 11:33 am § in Misc.
Video Proves Philly Cop Lied About Sucker-Punching Drunk Black Guy
In Philadelphia, a white cop has been charged with assault and perjury after sucker-punching a black guy and then lying in his official report that the black guy threatened him. A surveillance video shows what actually happened. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk4NQZZmf2s Yeah, the black guy was dru[...]
Anthony: Everybody move to the back of Bus
An 80-year-old Black man, proud of the accomplishments made during the Civil Rights movement, gets on a half empty Metro bus. This tall, but slightly crouched, handsome, copper complexioned man, with no visible wrinkles, despite his age, would have been 19-20 years old around the time that the Mon[...]