Source: Gado / Getty Free speech in America has never fully belonged to Black Americans. The tools used to silence us have changed in how they appear over time, but the logic underneath them hasn’t. In 1740, the South Carolina Negro Act codified white supremacy and made it a crime to teach an enslaved Black […]
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The Ancestors Want A Refund On Black History Month 2026
Source: Anadolu / Getty Somewhere in the afterlife, the ancestors are sitting at a long mahogany table. Harriet Tubman has her arms folded like she already knows this meeting is about to be stupid. Frederick Douglass is rubbing his temples the way you do when you realize you escaped slavery just for people to still […]
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