This Post Has A Black Theme (But The Letters Are White & There's Many More Of Them, So They Win Everything)

"White women rarely sought to help their enslaved women enduring sexual abuse.

Northern black people were everyday victims of white racism and discrimination, and in the free states of the North, black people were typically the ‘last hired and first fired’. Notably, in his autobiography Northup himself describes the everyday “obstacle of color” in his life prior to his kidnapping and subsequent enslavement."

"In Little Rock, Ark., on Monday, a federal judge is considering a deal that would end one of the longest running and most notorious school desegregation cases in the country. The state, its largest school districts and lawyers representing black students have agreed to settle a complex lawsuit over unequal education."

"In this sense, he is almost allegorical, serving as every captured slave waging a battle against an oppressor far stronger than himself."

"A Band Called Death"