Before the 17th century, humans did not identify according to race. Humans identified according to tribal associations and nation state affiliations. The works of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach started the spark that would change the world’s thinking about race. Blumenbach studied Craniometry. In 1779, in his work, he divided the human species into five races. These […]
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The saga of Gelya
Ardan Markizova was the People’s Commissar for Agriculture of the Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Province in the U.S.S.R in the 1930s. He took his daughter Engelsina Sergeyevna Markizova (Gelya) to a meeting at the Kremlin with Joseph Stalin in 1936. What occurred at the meeting would change Gelya and her family’s life for better and for worse. […]
A primer on Race riot history in America
We define police brutality as a civil rights violation where officers exercise undue or excessive force against a civilian. This includes physical or verbal harassment, physical or mental injury, property damage, and death. The first use of the term police brutality in the American Press was in 1872, when the Chicago Tribune reported the beating […]
