Archive for November 2020
Combating Racism – Lynchings Part 2 – Northern States
WARNING: The information and photos in this newsletter can be upsetting. Lynchings were not unique to Southern states, but as the chart below indicates, the number of lynchings in non-Southern states is significantly less than those in the South. The Great Migration brought tens of thousands of African Americans to northern industrial cities. The growing Black population…
Read MoreCombating Racism – Violence Part 3 – Lynchings in the South
The lynching problem / Dalrymple, 1899. Courtesy: Library of Congress “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” ~ Maya Angelou, On the Pulse of Morning WARNING: The information in this newsletter may be upsetting and potentially traumatizing. DISCLAIMER: In researching material for this newsletter,…
Read MoreCombating Racism – Understanding Racial Violence – Part 2
EDITORIAL NOTE: In last week’s newsletter, the sub-heading 1868 – OPELOUSAS, GEORGIA should have been OPELOUSAS, LOUISIANA. As I mentioned in last week’s newsletter, an opinion piece in The Washington Post by Walter Greason entitled, “We must honor those lost to violent racism,” inspired me to learn more about the history of racial violence in our…
Read MoreCombating Racism – Understanding Racial Violence – Part 1
Anyone who knows me will tell you that I abhor violence. Of any kind. I can’t watch it on TV or in the movies, or read graphic descriptions of racial violence in books or magazines. So it surprises even me that I’m writing this newsletter, the first in a series, about racial violence in America.…
Read MoreCombating Racism – Reforming the Cash Bail System
THE ISSUES On any given day, nearly half a million people languish in jail cells across America, waiting for their criminal cases to move forward, severed from their lives and communities even though they have not been convicted of a crime. People in pretrial detention now make up more than 2/3 of America’s jail population.…
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