Broccoli City Festival 2023

Broccoli City 2023

Boasts to be the largest festival in the US for people of color; creating higher standards of sustainable living, environmental sustainability, and promoting community engagement.

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Black activists say Jan. 6 insurrection was part of white supremacist playbook

By Jessica Floyd, The Grio EXCLUSIVE: Voting rights advocates connect Capitol attack to racial riots throughout history that sought a common goal to strike fear in Black voters and anyone who validated their political power. LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter received a call from the Federal Bureau of Investigations on Jan. 6, 2021 notifying…

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Pioneering Black educator’s statue to replace Confederate statue at the Capitol

By Kynala Phillips, NBC News The statue of Mary McLeod Bethune, a civil rights activist born to former slaves, will represent Florida in the National Statuary Hall Collection, starting in 2022. Civil rights activist and Bethune-Cookman University founder Mary McLeod Bethune will soon make history again.  She will be the first Black person to represent…

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White Mobs and Capitol riots are American to the Core

A Black woman and former Republican Sophia A. Nelson reflects on the terrorist attack that took place at the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021. Nelson insightfully analyzes the objectives of the attack and its’ repercussions, dutifully highlighting the fact that the attack is a pristine enactment of White Privilege.

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