Tag: Mary Helen Rogers

The U.S. Army had to capture, often burn to the ground plantations in order to release African-Americans. By 1865, only 1 million of the 3.6 million enslaved had been freed.

From our perspective at POOR Magazine, we believe that as poor, indigenous, landless peoples, we need to create our own self-determined futures. With our meager resources – ‘cause POOR is in fact po’ – we held this event to make sure that this silenced community is really truly listened to by whomever wins this District 5 election.