Cheryl Barnette
Stories (3/0)
Lyle
WHO MURDERED MY BROTHER LYLE? Who murdered my brother Lyle? Surely someone close to him because after all he was stabbed nine times; overkill. A fatal blow to the liver, so it read on a rough handwritten note given to my sister from one of the officers who had the unfortunate task of delivering the message that my brother was dead; murdered on his 28th birthday.
By Cheryl Barnette3 years ago in Families
Robert Benjamin Lewis
Being African American, and being the daughter of an inventor, as well as being a native New Englander, I am absolutely fascinated by Robert Benjamin Lewis. Not much is known about him, but he was a black man who had in fact, was an inventor, entrepreneur, as well as a successful marketer back in the day when accomplishments of people of color and their achievements were not celebrated or acknowledged, and very rarely recorded. He was the author of the book "Light and Truth" written and published in 1836, considered to be the first "history book". The topic was the relationship between African Americans and Native Americans in relation to the Bible.
By Cheryl Barnette3 years ago in Journal
Sean Ellis
Sean Ellis - Trial 4 Netflix is currently airing a documentary called Trial 4 which is about a young black man named Sean Ellis from Boston, Massachusetts, who was wrongly convicted at the age of 19, of killing a police officer named Detective John Mulligan, a corrupt police officer who routinely ripped off black drug dealers. This tragedy occurred on September 22, 1993. Sean spent some 22 years in prison, more than half of his life, and this documentary sadly depicts how these tragic events unfolded.
By Cheryl Barnette3 years ago in Criminal