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I’M TIRED.

I’m tired of fake historians assuming that every dark-skinned person in early America must have been African—and then forcing every tribe, document and family into that conclusion. I’m tired of Black Indigenous people being told that our existence requires African admixture. A Black Indian does not need an African ancestor to explain why that Indian is Black. I’m tired of people Africanizing the Gullah Geechee while ignoring their roots among Black Indigenous peoples of the c

Michael Lane

Aug 85 min read

The story of Oklahoma may be far more complex than most history books acknowledge.

When most Americans hear the words "Black Wall Street," they immediately think of Greenwood in Tulsa—a thriving community of successful entrepreneurs, professionals, educators, churches, newspapers, and businesses that was devastated during the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. The story is usually told as one of extraordinary Black economic achievement followed by horrific racial violence. That history deserves to be remembered. But I believe there is another layer to this story

Michael Lane

Aug 63 min read

They Did Not Lose Their Native Identity—Officials Erased It

What if the greatest theft in American history was not only the theft of land, labor and freedom—but the theft of identity itself? What if millions of descendants were separated from their ancestral nations, not because every family migrated away or willingly abandoned its heritage, but because colonial governments created racial categories that buried tribal identities beneath words such as: Negro. Mulatto. Colored. Mustee. Free Person of Color. Black. For generations, Nativ

Michael Lane

Aug 414 min read