Category Archives: Race

“The Life and Legacy of Frederick Douglass in the America of 2022”

Posted on November 5, 2022 by politicswestchesterview

Anyone reading this likely knows Andy Dinniman, County Commissioner and State Senator for a total of 30 years, and before that school board Director and chair of the Chesco Democratic party as well as a long-serving and now emeritus WCU … Continue reading →

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Frederick Douglass and the 4th of July

Posted on July 3, 2022 by politicswestchesterview

The statue of Frederick Douglass on the West Chester University campus (through the archway at the corner of High St. and University Ave.) shows him symbolically having broken the chains of bondage. This work by faculty member Richard Blake is … Continue reading →

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Beirut, 2020? No: Tulsa, 1921

Posted on August 12, 2020 by politicswestchesterview

After white residents with the complicity of city officials destroyed the 35 square blocks of the country’s wealthiest Black community in the Tulsa Race Riot, May 31 – June 1, 1921: Photo from Wikimedia Commons, public domain.

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Poem for the day or century

Posted on May 5, 2014 by politicswestchesterview

Countee Cullen, from Color (Harper, 1925): Tableau Locked arm in arm they cross the way The black boy and the white, The golden splendor of the day The sable pride of night. From lowered blinds the dark folk stare And … Continue reading →

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