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...
Episode 83 I Black History Month – “At The Dark End Of The Street” with Danielle McGuire and Beth Hubbard Author of “At The Dark End Of The Street” Danielle McGuire, and Producer of “The Rape of Recy Taylor” Beth Hubbard, provide a powerful...
Here is my latest opinion piece in the Hollywood Reporter on the new film about Nat Turner. Nate Parker and The Birth of a Nation team ask viewers to take history seriously and to grapple with the most painful parts of America’s past...
If you want to contextualize the mass murders at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC to see how this attack was rooted in white supremacy and attacks on black citizenship and humanity, this curated list makes for a good starting...
(CNN) – In the wake of Barack Obama’s second inauguration, it is easy to forget about the daily indignities and terror African-Americans have endured; easy to forget that simply surviving segregation required ordinary people to engage in...
Here’s Recy Taylor’s Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recy_Taylor I don’t know who wrote it, but I am grateful!
By Danielle McGuire, Special to CNN (CNN) – In 2011, Rosa Parks was in the news, six years after her death. An excerpt from a breathtaking essay she wrote in the 1950s about a “near rape” by a white man in Alabama was released to the...
From the Dothan Eagle August 29, 2012: Aug. 29–Henry County Sheriff’s investigators are looking for information in the theft of a Rosa Parks historical marker. Sheriff William Maddox said it’s the second time his office has...
On Thursday, I went to Washington DC to honor Recy Taylor and to “reintroduce” Rosa Parks as a militant detective and fierce activist for human dignity and civil rights at the National Press Club. We started the day with a private...
Here’s the article by Bob Johnson and Errin Haines at the AP: MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Legislature has officially apologized to an elderly black woman who was raped nearly seven decades ago by a gang of white men as she walked...
This is an excellent article by Cynthia Gordy, a journalist at the Root.com: Recy Taylor hadn’t asked for much. More than six decades after she was raped by six white men in her hometown of Abbeville, Alabama – a horrific crime that the sheriff’s...
The Alabama House made an historic move Tuesday (March 29) towards a state apology to Recy Taylor, 91, who was gang raped by 7 white men in Abbeville, Ala., in 1944. The AP reports: The House on Tuesday approved by an apparent unanimous voice...
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