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The Soweto Uprising June 16, 1976

June 19, 2024

By Dannie Gore Soweto, South Africa On June 16, 1976, black high school students numbering in the thousands took to the streets to protest their grievances over a racially discriminatory educational policy that forced them to use Afrikaans as the official language in the classroom. The ensuing clashes between the police and the defenseless children […]

Detroit to Durban: Black Workers’ Common Struggle

April 21, 2024

Shared by Dannie Gore, Sr. The parallels between South African Apartheid and the treatment of African Americans in the United States ought to be too obvious to need enumerating. The whites only signs, the outside agitator explanations for revolt, and the religious justifications for inequality are very familiar to Americans. Even notorious pass laws have […]

W.H. Council, Founder of Alabama A&M University

April 21, 2024

By Dannie Gore Sr. W.H. Council was born in Fayetteville, NC, in 1848. When he’s was nine years old, he was carried by slave traders to Alabama, where he worked in the cotton fields until set free as a result of the Civil War. He attended one of the first schools opened by Northern teachers […]