The Monster We Celebrate on Columbus Day
Coard: America officially celebrates a man who raped and tortured his way into history.
Remembering the Great Charles Bowser on His 84th Birthday
Coard: He was a black man first, a lawyer second. But in all things he was second to none.
Nat Turner: Murderer or Visionary?
Coard: Activists will celebrate his 214th birthday in Philly at the President’s House/Slavery Memorial this week.
American Slavery: Maliciously Born 395 Years Ago on August 20th
Coard: Tomorrow, mourn that human beings were bought, sold and owned in Center City Philadelphia.
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Dr. Walter P. Lomax Jr.
Coard: Last year we lost one of Philadelphia’s truly great men. He would have been 82 this week.
MOVE Would Have Never Happened in a White Neighborhood
Coard: 29 years later, there is no justice for MOVE’s victims. Inside “Philly’s 9/11.”
10 Things You Should Know America Slaveholding Third President
Coard: Read this before you go to Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello.
The Revolution Remains Untelevised
Coard: Remembering Gil Scott-Heron, hip-hop godfather and Lincoln University alum.
End Black History Month Now
Coard: I agree with many whites who argue that it should be abolished.
What We Lost in Dr. Walter P. Lomax
10 things you probably didn’t know about the truly great Philadelphian.