Author: Marian Pierce

I missed the inaugural Juneteenth rodeo a few days ago at the Portland Expo center: https://8secondsrodeo.com/, but hopefully won’t miss…

On 9-11 I saw a clip of people holding hands and jumping from the windows of the burning Twin Towers.…

Part II: Protests vs. Nonviolent Campaigns More from Diane Nash: “Let’s take the Montgomery bus boycott. Blacks thought for decades…

Protests versus Nonviolent Campaigns, Part 1 The end of Diane Nash’s 2020 talk at Notre Dame University was truly illuminating…

The Only Woman In response to a question from a student about how she handled being a woman in the…

The photo below is one of my favorites of the Little Rock Nine. Front row, left to right, Thelma Mothershed,…

In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that “separate is not equal” in the case Brown v. Board of Education…