Category: Interviews

MUST SEE: Freedman removal in the 1980’s and Cherokee vote to purge black descendants from nation

African-American / Interviews / Politics and Elections

MUST SEE: Freedman removal in the 1980’s and Cherokee vote to purge black descendants from nation

This is the part of the interview that the whole series revolves around. The first three parts of the Verdie Triplett interview last week focused on the history of the 5 Civilized Tribes and their slaves/freedman. This next part of the interview talks about how the tribes recently conspired to...

Dallas South/Shawn Williams on NPR’s News and Notes

African-American / Blogging / Dallas South / Interviews / Media

Dallas South/Shawn Williams on NPR’s News and Notes

Thanks -as always- to Farai Chideya, Devin Robins, and all the folks at NPR’s News and Notes for allowing me to participate on today’s bloggers roundtable. I was on with Shay Riley of Booker Rising, and Arlene Fenton of Black Women Vote. We discussed the “fairness doctrine”, Ralph Nader, and...