Dorothy “Dot” Counts-Scoggins
A tribute to Dorothy “Dot” Counts-Scoggins. An American civil rights pioneer, and one of the first black students admitted to the Harry Harding High School lest we forget. Violence erupted in other cities where black students tried to enter all-white schools. Events such as these were part of a long struggle for equality, called civil rights. Counts’ family was concerned …
Negro Boys Industrial School Fire of 1959
Negro Boys Industrial School Fire of 1959 AKA: Wrightsville Fire of 1959 On March 5, 1959, twenty-one African-American boys burned to death inside a dormitory at an Arkansas reform school in Wrightsville (Pulaski County). The doors were locked from the outside. The fire mysteriously ignited around 4:00 a.m. on a cold, wet morning, following earlier thunderstorms in the same area of …
Breonna Taylor Case Smells of Rampant Justice Denied From Top to Bottom
The Breonna Taylor murder cover-up gets more intriguing the longer it simmers. We are witnessing a law enforcement that grows violently more Anti-afrimetic and vehemently opposes the Black Lives Matter movement. Every stall tactic and demeaning maneuver is being played out in the state and city in which Muhammad Ali was born, which is Louisville, Ky. At the top of …
Wilmington, NC Long Historic Racial Prerogative Continues
June 27, 2020 AM Another law enforcement agency has fired several of its officers because of publicly stated racial animus targeting Blacks. Wilmington, North Carolina continues to adopt a perpetual prerogative which imposes generational racial disparities embedded into legacy social systems and authoritative branches.More on the city’s racist borne, bloody history later. Michael ‘Kevin’ Piner, James ‘Brian’ Gilmore, and Jessie …
BLACK LIVES MATTER
InnerKwest™ has committed resources to the Black Lives Matter movement. We recognize and appreciate the BLM raison d’etre. Black Lives Matter (BLM) is an international human rights movement, originating from within the African-American community, which campaigns against violence and systemic racism towards black people. BLM regularly holds protests speaking out against police brutality and police killings of black people, and …
Gentrification and Affordable Housing Can and Must Coexist
Politicians have given city planners a green light to do what they do without factoring serious consideration of the collateral damage to neighborhoods and families. Make no doubt about it, this about real estate and land grabbing. As my contemporaries say, “You can’t get hurt with dirt”. Minimal checks and balances give way to developers for maximum ROI (return on …