Even though slaves were freed in 1863, 2.5 years before, Texas refused to share the news with slaves there because, as it’s told, crops still needed to be harvested by slave labor. Freed people were not free.
Los Angeles Pastor Redeem Robinson of All Souls Church has joined a hunger strike as part of a national coalition of 25 faith leaders advocating for voting rights on the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol to urge Congress to pass voting rights legislation on or before Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. Day on Jan. 17.
The Anniversary of the 1965 Watts Revolt occurs in the context of a larger history of Black struggle, sacrifices and achievements: the assassination, sacrifice and martyrdom of Min. Malcolm X; the Selma March; the Voting Rights Act; the founding of our organization Us and the African American Cultural Center; and the introduction of the Black value system, the Nguzo Saba, which became the core values of the pan-African holiday Kwanzaa and of Kawaida, a major Movement philosophy of life and struggle.