Rethinking Our History

Send us a textWe have all been taught the story of Rosa Parks in school, but what we were taught was not the whole story. Rosa's actions that day were staged after another woman did the same thing.Claudette Colvin was a pregnant 15 year old dark skinned black girl who one day refused to give her seat up on the bus. But Claudette did not look the way they needed her to look to get t

Send us a textWe got a sticky sweet event for yall today. The morning of January 15th 1919 was like any other in the North Boston neighborhood where Purity Distilling kept their 2.3 million gallon tank of black strap molasses.Around 12:30 in the afternoon everything changed when that tank exploded, flooding the neighborhood in millions of gallons of the sticky fluid, which then beg

Send us a textThis week on ROH we look at the life and legacy of a woman, who never knew what was done to her. After giving birth to her 4th child Henrietta Lacks was diagnosed with cervical cancer. While undergoing treatment samples were taken of her cells, without her consent. Henrietta would never know how far and wide her cells would end up going. She would never know about the

Send us a textIn this second episode of Rethinking Our History we are going through the events of November 10th 1898 when a posse of white men began terrorizing the black community. Once it was all said and done at least a dozen men lay dead in the streets and hundreds more had been forced from their homes. In conclusion, we hope that people become aware of the similarities of what

Send us a textIn this first episode of Rethinking Our History we take a look at an event that is not talked about in the history of North Carolina. And we say this as two people who spent their whole school years in the NC education system. It was not until the events of January 6th that Felicia learned about the only successful insurrection in the US, that in reality was a massacr