This summer I participated in a road trip with one of my best friends. We flew from Chicago to Dallas, and then we drove from Dallas to Michigan; within 24 hours. Crazy right?! We even stopped at a few historical places. Briefly in Arkansas and Tennessee. You didn’t think I was going to do a road trip without history did you? We decided to stop for a couple of hours in Memphis to eat and take in a mini tour….
Last night I was on the couch, and I was reading/watching various news stories that were in my social media newsfeed. I was thinking here we are celebrating the bicentennial anniversary of the abolishment of slavery, and we are still concerned with RACE. How far have we come and how did we get here? Okay so slavery “ended” in 1865 with the 13th Amendment right, or was it the Emancipation Proclamation? I need you to know the difference between the…