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06/10/2020

May 13th marked 35 years since the Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on a West Philly neighborhood, specifically on the house of a Black liberation group called MOVE, killing 11 members, including 5 children, destroying 61 homes and leaving 250 people homeless.

On the day of the bombing, the police were sent to the MOVE house to execute arrest warrants for several members. When those inside the house refused to respond, the authorities decided to take extreme measures. They somehow justified the use of military grade weapons, despite their knowledge of children on the premises.

500 police officers shot 10,000 rounds of ammo with automatic weapons at the house. The police commissioner then ordered to bomb the house, with a helicopter dropping a satchel bomb, a demolition device typically used in combat, onto the roof. After detonation, officials let the fire spread throughout the neighborhood.

Despite this event being the only account of an aerial bombing of US citizens on US soil no one was ever prosecuted.

02/06/2019

Our Story

  William Augustus Hinton was born. He was an African American doctor, professor, and the first Black to publish an academic textbook. Hinton was from Chicago. He attended the University of Kansas from 1900 to 1902 and

06/25/2018

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06/24/2018

Don’t you just love these shower curtains?!

06/19/2018

On June 19, 1865, Major Gen. Gordon Granger came to Galveston, Texas, to inform the community that President Lincoln two years earlier had freed the slaves.

We still have tons of work to do and countless chains to break despite being “free” but still we must celebrate and keep moving forward.

“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery.
None but ourselves can free our minds.” Bob Marley

06/09/2018

06/07/2018

Happy Earthday to this mighty woman

06/06/2018

Decades before the holocaust, Eugene Fischer of Germany tested these vile and inhumane techniques on the people of which became the the manual for the

06/05/2018

What role did we play in the role of “classics” ? More than you can imagine

A new exhibition celebrates the role of African-Americans in the study of Classics, important figures who often been ignored by many historians

06/05/2018

Sen. Marco Rubio is one of the biggest beneficiaries.

06/05/2018

is the real inspiration behind and Henson helped start in 1841 a freeman settlement called the British American Institute, in an area called Dawn, which became known as one of the final stops on the Railroad.

Henson repeatedly returned to the U.S. to guide 118 other to freedom.