A historical marker and a memorial to the victims of police violence Survivors and victims’ family members gathered together on July 26, 2024 for the dedication of the Algiers Motel historical marker. 57 years earlier, on July 26, 1967...
No headstone marks William “Billy” Dalton’s gravesite. His childhood home on Fernwood Street, once part of a vibrant, working-class Black neighborhood, was razed to build the Jeffries Freeway. The former parking lot of Wild’s Cleaner’s on the...
Happy 100th Birthday, Recy Taylor! Recy Taylor was born on New Year’s Eve in 1919, a crucible of violence & resistance. It was the year of the “Red Summer” when white terrorists rampaged through black towns and across the country in an orgy...
Last night I spoke with Betty Jean Owens’s grandson, Amonte Martin. He and I talked over the past decade–first when my Journal of American History article came out and since my book was released in 2010. We chatted about history...
In May 1959, four white men kidnapped and raped an African American college student in Tallahassee Florida. When her classmates at Florida A & M University found out about what happened, they mobilized and demanded justice. Their public...
After listening to Oprah Winfrey’s passionate and inspiring speech about Recy Taylor, #TimesUp and the #MeToo movement at the Golden Globes in January, the Congressional Black Caucus decided to honor Recy Taylor for her courageous testimony...
Kidada Williams and I partnered to write this story about Shawana Hall for Bridge Magazine, which was published on December 14, 2017. Here it is: Shawana Hall was celebrating her 31st birthday on a cold, rainy night in April 2008, when she met a...
Stephen Henderson and I spoke at WDET on Martin Luther King Jr. Day about the Civil Rights Movement and its roots in black women’s demand for bodily integrity. We talked about Recy Taylor, Rosa Parks, and how the entire civil rights...
I wrote an essay for the Washington Post about Oprah, Recy Taylor, Rosa Parks and the long history of Black Women’s organizing before the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements. Here it is: “In her breathtaking Golden Globes speech Sunday...
I spoke with Geogea Kovanis of the Detroit Free Press about the historical research that led me to Recy Taylor and her connection to Rosa Parks. More than 13 years ago, I found a thread in a pamphlet put out by the Civil Rights Congress in the...
I met Mrs. Recy Taylor at her brother, Robert Corbitt’s, tidy ranch home in Abbeville, Alabama the same day that millions of Americans gathered in Washington D.C. to witness the inauguration of President Barack Obama. I was in Abbeville to...
Rosa Parks wrote an essay about how she escaped from a man who tried to sexually assault her. Is it just a story, as some would have us think? Or is it a true testimony of a personal experience? I spoke with NPR’s “The...
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