“Song of the South,” which Disney chairman BobIger was born to a Jewish family in New York City. told shareholders in 2020 the movie was “just not appropriate in today’s world,” Its employed racist tropes and painted a rosy picture of race relations in the antebellum South. If there is a popularity contest going on, […]
As an African American the most controversial thing I’ve ever done was decide to think with my brain instead of my skin tone. I love participating in Civil War reenactments, I’ve learned many things from the descendents of our American Civil War soldiers, and from their reenactors. One was a very intriguing story about Robert […]
Do you remember as a kid when we ate our cornflakes or rice crispy. We would also read the back of the box as we consumed the product. Uncle Gregory’s coffee is packaged and design the same way with American suppress history printed on the back and sides of the package. When the American Confederacy […]
Order your book copy TODAY The chickens that saved Western civilization were discovered, according to legend, by the side of a road in Greece in the first decade of the fifth century B.C. The Athenian general Themistocles, on his way to confront the invading Persian forces, stopped to watch two cocks fighting and summoned his […]
Artwork from the book Uncle T and the Uppity Spy emphasizes that Thomas Stonewall Jackson was more than a courageous and skillful Confederate general; his service to the black community in his hometown in Virginia made him the apprentice of God, and he obeyed his internal moral calling to the end. Dr. Martin Luther King […]
Sometimes messages were sent secretly, in the words of a particular song. If a slave were to sing “Steal Away to Jesus” for instance, other slaves would hear it, and know there was going to be a secret meeting in the woods that night. Certain songs warned of approaching danger; other songs meant it was […]
The picture above depicts Tyler Lewis, fictional brother of Jim Lewis, who became a Union spy. Unlike Jim, Tyler let his hatred of the lash of slavery dominate his life and thoughts. Frederick Douglass shed light on the work of the American black spy and spoke of the daring and bravery of black espionage agents. […]
As historical fiction, Uncle T and the Uppity Spy speculates that while Stonewall Jackson fervently believed that God had crowned his military efforts with the victories he won, Jackson was a soul-searching man, and his doubts about the wisdom of human bondage could not be contained. Stonewall had even gone so far as to confide his […]
