Emory Douglas
Emory Douglas is an American artist, best known for his work as the Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967 until the...
Category : Politics
The ‘Mississippi Plan’ to keep Blacks from voting in 1890: ‘We came here to exclude the Negro’
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By Ronald G. Shafer On a hot August day in 1890, delegates gathered at Mississippi’s Capitol Building in Jackson to begin work on a new...
Hunting down runaway slaves: The cruel ads of Andrew Jackson and ‘the master class’
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“Stop the Runaway,” Andrew Jackson urged in an ad placed in the Tennessee Gazette in October 1804. The future president gave a detailed description: A...
Theodore G. Bilbo
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Theodore G. Bilbo was a prominent American politician who left an indelible mark on the nation’s political landscape during the early to mid-20th century. Known...
Mississippi’s Senate voted to send all the state’s Black people to Africa
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By Joshua Benton February 19, 2022 One hundred years ago, the Mississippi state Senate voted to evict the state’s Black residents — the majority of...
DON’T BUY COORS – Here’s why
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1. COORS SUPPORTS TERRORISM IN NICARAGUA Each sale of Coors beer helps the contra terrorists in Nicaragua, who have been ambushing and killing civilians, murdering...
Ross Barnett
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Governor Ross Barnett, a prominent figure in American politics during the mid-20th century, left an indelible mark on the state of Mississippi and the nation...
Stacey Abrams
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Stacey Abrams is a lawyer, politician, author, the first African American female major-party gubernatorial nominee, and the first African American woman to deliver a response...
The Confederate States of America
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The Confederate States of America was a collection of 11 states that seceded from the United States in 1860 following the election of President Abraham...
A U.S. Supreme Court justice was in the Ku Klux Klan—and he remained on the bench for 34 years
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Hugo Black had been associate justice of the Supreme Court for less than a month when the news broke. In September of 1937, an exposé by the Pittsburgh...