This family-run airline - valued at over $90 million - didn’t get to where they are out of nowhere.
And for 29-year-old daughter and aviation pro Sherrexcia “Rexy” Rolle, there were certain steps she had to make to take her family business to the next level.
People were fed up by 1966.
With uprisings happening internationally, revolution leaders around the world flew to attend Fidel Castro’s inaugural Tricontinental Conference in Havana, Cuba, seeking to build momentum around the guerilla warfare tactics each hoped would stop the intrusion of U.S. imperialists in their homelands.
From that mission came the Organisation of Solidarity of the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America (Ospaaal) - a publishing house charged with one essential role…
Through the Homestead Act of 1862, the U.S. government was practically BEGGING ordinary citizens to settle acres of land across Arkansas, Kansas, and Oklahoma.
The opportunity seemed worth every risk and it was Benjamin “Pap” Singleton, a formerly enslaved carpenter, who would lead the migration into the unknown.
Singleton knew that the Homestead Act would provide 160 acres of land to anyone willing to put in hard work and brave untold dangers.
“The Riders” were a group of Oakland police officers who made a name for themselves abusing and framing Black men. There was evidence against them, but it was destroyed - legally! - because some people just don’t care about holding the police accountable.
According to the Appeal, in 2015, the Superior Court in Alameda County, California destroyed files on the Riders “which consisted of thousands of pages of hearing transcripts, motions, and evidence. [They] were the best public record of the longest criminal trial in Alameda County history.”
A judge has blocked Republican efforts to prevent people with past criminal convictions from voting in Florida. U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle wrote in a ruling, “What the State cannot do is deny the right to vote to a felon who would be allowed to vote but for the failure to pay amounts the felon has been genuinely unable to pay.”
Comcast cable company is the latest mega-corporation to undercut Black entrepreneurs with their business practices.
Now media mogul Byron Allen is arguing in a legal battle before the Supreme Court that Comcast is in violation of legal protections dating back to 1866 that were set up SPECIFICALLY to level the playing field for Black people.
Back when enslaved people were finally granted citizenship, many assumed that civil and economic freedom would soon follow.
Maryland’s prisons are Black. Really Black. As a matter of fact, Maryland has more Black people in its prisons than any other state in the nation. The rate is even worse than the states further South by far, which people might imagine would look worse.
Lori Landry is the first Black woman elected to serve as a judge in Louisiana’s 16th Judicial District! Though this should be great news for everyone, some non-Black people are enraged by this progress - especially after she kept it real when talking about the criminal justice system.
What did she say that was so “bad?”
In a recent campaign stop in Atlanta, Donald Trump tried to appeal to Black people. His favorite talking points: the strong economy, with Black unemployment lower than ever. That’s true! But we shouldn’t believe the hype.
A closer look at the numbers reveals more than they want us to know.
