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Publisher's Point

Jul 24 – Aug 06, 2025

As Expected, Nottoway Plantation is Reopening – What Did Blacks Gain?

Just as burned business districts in Washington, DC’s Black neighborhoods came back from the 1960s riots, with some Blacks clapping and jeering the destruction, the Nottoway Plantation in Louisiana is coming back after many Blacks clapped and jeered its destruction. Where does that leave Black people who attended the Nottingway–Plantation–is–Burning Cookout?

May 29 – Jun 11, 2025

Nottingway Plantation: A Burned Path to Economic Freedom

Wouldn't it have been better if he had wiped his face with the words of journalist Tony Brown: "If you want freedom, but it?" Learning from Mayor Hatcher about the power of economics, Times journalist Maurice Carlos Ruffin could have focused on business rather than emotional savvy, and saved the work of Black artisans, increased the employment of Black employees at the plantation, changed the narrative, and forged a new economic and social destiny, blazing a trail toward financial freedom.

Sep 07 – Sep 20, 2023

Are You White Yet? The Black vs. Serbian American Experience

Historically, the immigrant Croats and Serbs competed with African Americans for jobs and inferior housing. However, they used their ability to dissolve into the American melting pot, whereas the masses of African Americans, who were born here, still struggle to get into the pot. In one of her books, Nell Irwin Painter describes the process of how several European subgroups, including the Irish, chased and caught whiteness.