Good Morning POU! This week we will look at the various tactics of the FBI in disrupting Black America through its infamous COINTELPRO program. Centralized operations under COINTELPRO officially began in August 1956 with a program designed to "increase factionalism, cause disruption and win defections" inside the Communist Party U.S.A. (CPUSA). Tactics included anonymous … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: COINTELPRO and The War On Black America
Justice
Friday Open Thread: Forgotten Justice – Stories of Jim Crow Violence
On July 14, 1946, four African American sharecroppers were lynched at Moore’s Ford in northeast Georgia in an event now described as the “last mass lynching in America.” Yet the killers of George Dorsey, Mae Murray Dorsey, Roger Malcolm, and Dorothy Malcolm were never brought to justice. The violence and public outcry surrounding the event reflected growing African American … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Forgotten Justice – Stories of Jim Crow Violence
Wednesday Open Thread: Forgotten Justice – Stories of Jim Crow Violence
By the end of the summer of 1945, World War II had come to an end. Over the next several months, many of the twelve million veterans returned home; 880,000 of these were black Americans. They had gone overseas to put their lives at risk in the fight for freedom and democracy, and they came home to find these ideals were not meant for them in their own … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: Forgotten Justice – Stories of Jim Crow Violence
Tuesday Open Thread: Forgotten Justice – Stories of Jim Crow Violence
The Groveland Four (or the Groveland Boys) were four young African-American men: Earnest Thomas, Charles Greenlee, Samuel Shepherd and Walter Irvin, who were accused of raping a 17-year-old white woman in Lake County, Florida in 1948. Thomas was killed as a suspect by a posse after leaving the area; Greenlee, Shepherd and Irvin were beaten while in jail to coerce … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: Forgotten Justice – Stories of Jim Crow Violence
Tuesday Open Thread: African American Photographers Part 2
Good Morning POU! Today we are featuring the works of Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun. Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun in front of L9 Center for the Arts which they founded in 2007. “Louisiana is the world's prison capital. The state imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of its U.S. counterparts. First among Americans means first in the … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: African American Photographers Part 2