Following the civil rights trail:  July 17, 2024

The day did not start out well as my car battery was dead.  Guess who helped me in the land of southern hospitality?  Don’t hurt your brains guessing.  A Black man and woman of course. He jumped the car and then I followed them to a Firestone where she knew the people...

Civil Rights History Tour

Three months is all it took for me to flee from the South.  I never had any intention to go back.  However, I do want to see the Legacy Museum of Bryan Stephenson in Montgomery, AL and the SPLC Civil Rights Museum is also in Montgomery.  So I decided I would do a...

Black Home Ownership in Arizona

At the Arizona Legislative Black Caucus meeting on March 18, 2024, chaired by Representative Quanta Crews, the Arizona Office of Economic Opportunity outlined detailed data from the 2020 census about Black population and homeownership in Arizona. Persons who...

TEACHER FIRED FOR SAYING JIM CROW LAWS WERE RACIST

TEACHER FIRED FOR SAYING JIM CROW LAWS WERE RACIST

Illinois has a law, The Re-Entering Citizens Civics Education Act (“the Act”), 730 ILCS 200/1,  seq.,  that requires the Illinois Department Of Corrections (IDOC)to provide programs led by peer educators to educate other incarcerated individuals about their voting...

Don’t shoplift in Avondale.  The penalty is death.

On February 21, 2023, an unknown person was accused of shoplifting unknown property of unknown value at the Dollar Tree. In response, the Avondale police murdered a 17-year-old Black teenager.  A police officer found him walking on a dead-end dirt path in a desert...

UN report on U.S. racism

With the long name of “International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in the Context of Law Enforcement” a group of international visitors that I shall call “Mechanism” came to the United States from 24 April to 5 May 2023.  They...

Law, God, and Attacks on Women

Secular AZ’s Substack Law, God, and Attacks on Women The legacy of femicide is alive and well in 2023 SECULARAZ  AND DIANNE POST JUL 29, 2023 The state of women’s rights today is pretty grim. One woman in Nebraska has gone to jail for self-aborting. Nineteen...