Sublime

The racializing serves the core mandate of race: to create hierarchies of value.

Wells was best known as a journalist for exposing the lies behind the justification for lynching. Negroes charged with recklessly eyeballing a White woman, or worse, were often people who had found prosperity and respect despite the constraints of Jim Crow. The lynchings put them back in their place. Wells nearly met a similar fate, but escaped as

This wasn’t my idea, by the way. It was George Romney’s. The Republican politician and father of Utah senator Mitt Romney proposed it in 1970 when he was Nixon’s secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Romney wanted the U.S. government to finally stop subsidizing segregation. His idea so enraged white suburbanites that Nixon s

of racial inequities.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, that is not afraid to make a stand for right and justice. Its most noted columnist (and now publisher), Ralph McGill, Pulitzer Prize winner, is significantly referred to as “Rastus” by the White Citizens Councils.

When he was thirty-two years old, Thomy Lafon was listed in the 1842 city directory as a merchant. His mother was born a free woman in Haiti and had arrived with other migrants post-revolution. Lafon grew wealthy through real estate. The Holy Family nursing home was the result of one of many of his charitable donations made in service of Black peop

was a Jefferson Dinner, but in our case, it was a Jefferson/Obama dinner. It followed the format of the tradition that Thomas Jefferson was known for, where he would invite the most brilliant minds in politics, academia, and science to a dinner