[Editor’s note: The following essay is adapted from Dr. Horne’s essay, “Torchbearers of Democracy,” which first appeared in his Substack newsletter, In Case of Emergency.
“Pop-Pop, did Black soldiers like you actually fight in World War II?” My grandfather, a WWII U.S Army combat veteran, lifted his shirt to reveal the scar left by the shrapnel...
Mary Turner was 21 years old and 8 months pregnant on May 18, 1918 when a white mob seized her, bound her feet, hanged her from a tree upside down, burned her clothes off her...
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