Category: Reggie Jackson
Reggie Jackson: Why I Don’t Celebrate Columbus Day
The things Americans don’t know about Columbus explains to me why the nation celebrates Columbus...
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Reggie Jackson: My family’s story of being enslaved and our forced migration
“As enslaved people had children and the enslaved population grew, slaveholders in areas that had...
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Reggie Jackson: On the Horror of America’s History of Racial Violence
“Eight negroes lynched since last issue of the Free Speech one at Little Rock, Arkansas, last...
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Reggie Jackson: On the 400th Anniversary of the arrival of the First Enslaved Africans
As we approach the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans enslaved in what would...
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Reggie Jackson: Desecration of Emmett Till’s Memorial shows the Civil War has still not ended
Emmett Till was 14-years old when he was kidnapped thirty-seven miles from my hometown in Mississippi in 1955.
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Massacre in El Paso: With blood on his hands, Trump cannot be absolved of anti-Latino hate speech
“They are not our friend, believe me. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re...
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