Unfiltered stories of Black resistance, erased heroes, and hidden truths. We connect the past to today’s fights so the next generation never has to ask “why didn’t they teach us this?”
David French wrote that one of the saddest aspects of the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti is that they seemed to believe they were operating inside a “normative state,” a world where police usually respond with discipline and restraint. For Black Americans, the normative state has historically included violence with limited consequence. From slave patrols to modern policing, enforcement has been uneven by design. Accountability has been selective. Discipline has been d
