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The Illusion of Justice (opens the original)
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After assassinating Medgar Evers in 1963, Byron De La Beckwith spent decades publicly bragging about the murder. He repeatedly told supporters:“There ain’t no jury in the State of Mississippi gonna convict a white man for killing a negro.”He wasn’t bragging. He was just stating a fact.When slavery officially ended, the Southern economy was in ruin. Southern whites required absolute control over Black labor just for their economy to function, and they were terrified of a massive Black majority ga
What Happened to Nat Turner’s Body? (opens the original)
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For generations, the story was sold to Black folks that Nat Turner’s rebellion ended at the gallows in 1831.From the slaughter of over 120 innocent Black people to the dissection of Turner’s body, history repeatedly proved that white folks weren’t interested in just an execution.They wanted complete and total erasure.In this video, we are breaking down … Read more
Why the FBI Protected the Klan (opens the original)
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On September 15, 1963, Ku Klux Klansmen blew up the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, murdering four young Black girls.Almost immediately, the FBI knew exactly who did it. They knew who built the bomb, and they knew who planted it.But instead of making an arrest, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover ordered the files locked in a vault.The federal government actively shielded child murderers to protect their own operation. Because the FBI had an informant embedded in the exact Klan unit
The Rage in the Spikes (opens the original)
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Just a few months after he won four Olympic gold medals and humiliated Adolf Hitler, Jesse Owens was standing on a dirt track in the Midwest, getting ready to race a horse.The fastest man in the world wasn’t running for American glory anymore. He was running against an animal for a couple of hundred dollars just to feed his family.America loves to claim Jesse Owens was the ultimate symbol of American democracy. But that is a lie. White America used his Black body to claim moral superiority over
The Ransom at the March (opens the original)
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On August 28, 1963, an agent of the Justice Department stood in the sound booth behind the Lincoln Memorial with his hand resting on a microphone kill switch.His orders were absoluteIf any speaker deviated from their heavily edited pre-approved speech to incite the crowd of 250,000 Black Americans, the audio was to be cut immediately.If the audio was cut, a recording of Mahalia Jackson singing “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” was going to be broadcast to pacify the crowd. The March on Was
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