Edmond W. Davis | Social Historian

September 11 & the Other Ground Zero: Blackghanistan – The First 9/11

Opening Statement *On September 11, 2001, the world stopped as America mourned nearly 3,000 lives lost in a single day …

Race Hurricane Katrina did more than flood a city; it revealed America’s racial and class fault lines in ways the world …

*Its killers were many: a GOP-led gravediggers campaign determined to “make America great again” by undoing decades of …

*Donald Trump’s public record reveals a consistent pattern: when Black women hold power and challenge him, he responds …

*BET has officially suspended both the BET Hip-Hop Awards and the Soul Train Awards until further notice. According to …

*Last weekend’s seismic upheaval in Russia’s Far East has rewritten geological expectations: the Krasheninnikov volcano, …

*(Disclaimer: To address the title of this column, it’s really for all levels of policing and law enforcement and all …

*Terry Gene Bollea—known to the world as Hulk Hogan—was more than just a wrestling icon. He was a cultural phenomenon. …

*Now more than ever, America must confront a long-standing yet under-acknowledged public health and cultural crisis: …

*In the United States, the wealthiest country on Earth—where over 24 million Americans are millionaires and 902 …

*In the depths of the Florida Everglades, a place teeming with mosquitoes, swamps, and predatory reptiles, the U.S. …

A Movement, Not a Moment *Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina and fifty-five years after the founding of Essence …

*On July 5, 1852, abolitionist Frederick Douglass stood before a crowd in Rochester, New York, and delivered what would …

*On May 24, 2018, then-President Donald J. Trump issued a long-overdue posthumous pardon to Jack Johnson, the first …

*Sixteen years ago today, on June 25, 2009, the world stood still. Michael Joseph Jackson—The King of Pop—died suddenly …