“Black Women Won’t Save the World” For: Erica Garner Despite pronouncements to the contrary, Black Women won’t save the world. Notwithstanding the circumference of the Cradle of Civilization in South Africa nestled in a locale from which all human beings originate; regardless of the excavations in Ethiopia of both […]
ERIC GARNER, ALTON STERLING AND CONTROLLING BLACK BODIES IN THE AMERICAS (a text in three parts) “Detroit’s black day laborers gathered at an informal outdoor labor market on the city’s periphery, known to local whites as the ‘slave market.’ The large ‘open air mart’ thrived between the 1940’s and […]
“FOREIGN WHIPS AND DETROIT’S DECLINE” By Audrey Shipp “In the early 1940’s, Detroit was at its industrial zenith, leading the nation in an economic escape from the Great Depression. Between 1940 and 1947 manufacturing employment in Detroit increased by 40 percent, a rate surpassed only by Los Angeles, […]
