Tag: Rosa Parks
4 Amazing Black Women They Don’t Tell You About in School
AFRICANGLOBE - As with Black History Month, the focus on already well-known figures has been an ongoing criticism of Woman’s History Month. When it comes to Black women, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells and Rosa Parks are on repeat.
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Rosa Parks
AFRICANGLOBE - Rosa Parks was far more radical than has been understood. She worked alongside the Black Power movement, particularly around issues such as reparations, Black history, anti-police brutality, freedom for Black political prisoners, independent Black political power and economic justice. She also paid a visit of support to the Black Panther school in Oakland, Calif.
The Gun Debate: Don’t Let Them Rewrite Black History
AFRICANGLOBE - Rush Limbaugh thinks John Lewis should have been armed. “If a lot of African-Americans back in the ’60s had guns and the legal right to use them for self-defense, you think they would have needed Selma?”
