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June 28
June 1969. Two months before Woodstock, another New York event changed America in a profound way. There’s no one moment that “started” the gay rights movement, but many say it began around 1:20 in the morning on June 28, 1969 at the Stonewall Inn in New York City. The Stonewall Inn was a gay bar on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village. When a handful of officers raided Stonewall in the wee hours of …Read more 
On May 27, 1967, the Australian public voted to alter the language of the Constitution to remove discriminatory laws against the indigenous people. One such Constitutional clause had previously declared: “In reckoning the numbers of the people of the Commonwealth, or of a State or other part of the Commonwealth, aboriginal natives shall not be counted.” Still, even decades after this sweeping reform, the Australian court held to a policy known as Terra Nullius. Terra Nullius was the …Read more 
May 26
That’s the difference between the UN and Australia. The UN would have called it “Day of Remembrance and Apologies for Injustices committed upon Indigenous Peoples” or something longer. Australians cut to the bone. There are a number of things to be sorry about with regards to treatment of Australia’s Aborigine population, but Sorry Day focuses mostly on one particularly terrifying aspect—the taking of Aboriginal children from their families in an ill-conceived ‘re-education’ project …Read more 
April 27
Today is Freedom Day in South Africa, a country that doesn’t take freedom for granted. Freedom Day celebrates South Africa’s first democratic elections, held on this day in 1994. Voting began on April 26, for the elderly, the ill, and pregnant women. The general election was held from April 27 to April 29, and was open to all South Africans 18 and older, regardless of race. Prior to the election, non-whites had limited …Read more 
April 4, 1968 Early Morning – April 4 A shot rings out in the Memphis sky Free at last, they took your life They could not take your pride – Pride (In the Name of Love), U2 40 years ago Martin Luther King Jr. looked off the balcony of his room on the second story of the Lorraine Hotel. King had given what would be his last address the day before. The Mountaintop speech. …Read more |
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