Fifth Street, originally settled by former slaves, is a Freedom Colony. An endangered site at the Shankleville Freedom Colony and The Texas Freedom Colonies Project were part of last week’s announcement at the capitol. Join the Texas Freedom Colonies Project FB or Andrea Roberts FB page to learn more. “Odom Homestead, Burkeville (Newton County) The…
Last weekend I attended the Purple Hull Pea Festival in Shankleville, Texas.
I have a lot to say about the movie Selma, but I frankly feel like I’ll need to see it again before I play armchair filmmaker. What I do feel confident talking about is Selma as a storytelling enterprise. Storytelling is on my mind a lot lately. Mostly because it is a large part of…
“Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity” ― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time For Benicio I awoke this morning feeling a little weary. Groggy, and frankly disappointed. But I felt compelled to…
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I saw this video this morning and started to get a little excited. I thought, someone is finally going to make the connections. They are going to expose the plethora of reasons that the media’s responses, the NFL’s, and many Americans’ responses to the Ray-Janay Rice video have been inadequate at best. But, well, watch…
By Andrea Roberts* I spoke yesterday with Jeremy Nelloms, descendant of Nancy Bradshaw. Nancy Bradshaw was a former slave who attained an impressive 300 acres of land after emancipation located in today’s northeast Houston, Texas. The land is located a few blocks off I-10 East. Her family still owns the land, and the historic African…
