Chief Joseph Chatoyer
Chief Joseph Chatoyer (also known as Satuye or Satuyé) was the paramount chief of the Garifuna (Black Carib) people of Saint Vincent in the late...
Author : joe bodego
Baliceaux
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The Forgotten Island Where a Nation Was Left to Die Off the coast of St. Vincent, in the turquoise waters of the Grenadines, sits a...
Ira Wilmer “Will” Counts Jr.
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Ira Wilmer “Will” Counts Jr. (August 24, 1931 – October 6, 2001) was an American photojournalist and educator best known for his powerful images documenting...
James Bonard Fowler
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James Bonard Fowler (September 10, 1933 – July 5, 2015) was an Alabama state trooper best known for fatally shooting civil rights activist Jimmie Lee...
Robert Chambliss
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Klan Activities and Violence Chambliss was linked to multiple acts of racial intimidation and violence in Birmingham from the 1940s onward. He was suspected of...
William Lewis Moore
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William Lewis Moore (April 28, 1927 – April 23, 1963) was an American postal worker, former Marine, and Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) activist known...
Albert Jennings “Al” Lingo
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Role During the Civil Rights Era (1963–1965) Lingo’s tenure coincided with intense conflict over desegregation and voting rights. Historians (including Dan T. Carter) and contemporary...
Joyce Bryant
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Joyce Bryant (born Ione Emily Bryant; October 14, 1927 – November 20, 2022) was an American singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist. She rose...
White People Should Stop Talking About Their Grandparents
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The myth of the “good grandfather” obscures a brutal history that demands humility, not celebration. When white Europeans, Americans, and Canadians speak of their grandparents,...
The 1934 Lynching of Claude Neal in Florida
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On the night of October 26, 1934, Claude Neal, a 23-year-old African American farmhand, was tortured and murdered by a white mob in Jackson County,...