Sublime

including the one at Loop College in Chicago in 1970, Hamer disclosed that one of the officers present that morning was S. L. Milam, the brother of one of the men who lynched fourteen-year-old Emmett Till in 1955.59 His presence at her home that morning was meant to terrify Hamer, sending a warning that her efforts to expand voting rights in the st

Jesse gained international attention for his 2016 BET Humanitarian Award acceptance speech.

Here is one who was so conditioned and organized within himself that he became a perfect instrument for the embodiment of a set of ideals—ideals of such dramatic potency that they were capable of changing the calendar, rechanneling the thought of the world, and placing a…

Some highlights have been hidden or truncated due to export limits.

especially given a population that is constantly taught about its oppression and views whites as the oppressors?

For Muñoz Marín, Albizu’s long absence from Puerto Rico was a relief. Negotiating with Washington was a lot easier when the Liberation Army wasn’t drilling in the street. Yet Albizu returned to the island in December 1947, and several thousand people greeted him at the dock. Forty cadets from the Liberation Army formed an honor guard around him. Pr

You Americans study your God. We Africans worship ours. You get smarter. We get changed. And then we change the world around us.”

representative of black freedom.