Whitaker Lee
Bio
Call me Whit if you’re sassy . 💁🏾♀️
Zesty gal with a fantastical flair.
IG @thewhittywriter
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A Case for Mary Jones
A Case for Mary Jones When you think of Black innovators, your mind probably wanders to the same twenty inventors, civil rights leaders, and entrepreneurs that you have been taught since your second-grade class with Ms. Johnson. This is not an indictment of you personally, but more so the failings of an entire system that fits the spectrum of Black history (AKA American History) into the shortest month of the year. Of course, to create a non-offensive, precisely packaged slice of history, you must select the highlights, but it's the footnotes between the margins that tell the untold stories. For this tidbit of tucked-away history, you must delve far into the recesses of a little-known 1836 New York City pick-pocketing case.
By Whitaker Lee3 years ago in Humans