Happy Juneteenth, 2025
some people are owed a check...
As the Trump Administration takes a deep dive back into the cliches of US Racisms, here are some links that were very informative for me back when I was saying their names on a sign in front of my house (along with some of my neighbors).
A decade of watching Black People Die courtesy of PBS, Code Switch and others:
Eric Garner, John Crawford III, Michael Brown, Ezell Ford, Dante Parker, Michelle Cusseaux, Laquan McDonald, George Mann, Tamisha Anderson, Akai Gurley, Tamir Rice, Rumain Brisbon, Jeramie Reid, Matthew Ajibade, Frank Smart, Natasha McKenna, Tony Robinson, Anthony Hill, Mya Hall, Phillip White, Eric Harris, Walter Scott, William Chapman II, Alexia Christian, Brendon Glenn, Victor Manuel Larosa, Jonathan Sanders, Freddie Gray, Joseph Mann, Salvado Ellswood, Sandra Bland, Albert Joseph Davis, Darrius Stewart, Billy Ray Davis, Samuel Dubose, Michael Sabbie, Brian Keith Day, Christian Taylor, Troy Robinson, Asshams Pharoah Manley, Felix Kumi, Keith Harrison McLeod, Junior Prosper, Lamontez Jones, Paterson Brown, Dominic Hutchinson, Anthony Ashford, Alonzo Smith, Tyree Crawford, India Kager, La'Vante Biggs, Michael Lee Marshall, Jamar Clark, Richard Perkins, Nathaniel Harris Pickett, Benni Lee Tignor, Miguel Espinal, Michael Noel, Kevin Matthews, Bettie Jones, Quintonio Legrier, Keith Childress Jr, Janet Wilson, Randy Nelson, Antronie Scott, Wendell Celestine, David Joseph, Calin Roquemore, Dyzhawn Perkins, Christopher Davis, Marco Loud, Peter Gaines, Torrey Robinson, Darius Robinson, Kevin Hicks, Mary Truxillo, Demarcus Semer, Willie Tillman, Terrill Thomas, Sylville Smith, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Terence Crutcher, Paul O'Neal, Alteria Woods, Jordan Edwards, Aaron Bailey, Ronell Foster, Stephon Clark, Antwon Rose II, Botham Jean, Pamela Turner, Dominique Clayton, Atatiana Jefferson, Christopher Whitfield, Christopher McCorvey, Eric Reason, Michael Lorenzo Dean, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd
BlackPast.org Major Lynchings (www.blackpast.org/special-features/lynchings-united-states-1865/):
The Lynching of Joe Coe, 1891, Henry Smith, 1893, Lynching of Julia and Frazier Baker, 1898, Joseph (“Joe”) Martin Lynching, 1904, Allen Brooks, 1910, Jesse Washington, 1916, Mary Turner Lynching, 1918, The Omaha Courthouse Lynching, 1919, Duluth Lynchings, 1920, Marion, Indiana Lynching, 1930, Eyewitness to Terror, 1931, The Moore’s Ford Lynching, 1946, Emmett Till, 1955, Charles Mack Parker, 1959, James Byrd Jr., 1998
44 most influential Black Americans (Andscape.com) https://andscape.com/features/the-undefeated-44-most-influential-black-americans-in-history/?ref=rbcdart.com)
Introduction, Robert Abbott, Alvin Ailey, Muhammad Ali, Richard Allen, Maya Angelou, Ella Baker, James Baldwin, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mary McLeod Bethune, Shirley Chisholm, Benjamin O. Davis Sr, Frederick Douglass, Dr. Charles Drew, W.E.B. Du Bois, Duke Ellington, Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Zora Neale Hurston, Jesse Jackson, Michael Jackson, Jay Z, Katherine Johnson, Quincy Jones, Michael Jordan, Martin Luther King Jr, Henrietta Lacks, Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, Toni Morrison, Barack Obama, Jesse Owens, Gordon Parks, Sidney Poitier, Richard Pryor, Jackie Robinson, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Madam C.J. Walker, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, Serena Williams, August Wilson, Oprah Winfrey, Stevie Wonder.
