Cultural Facts.

 

 

There are many people on my paternal side of the family who are related to my 5th great grandfather named Benjamin Brickhouse I (b. 1750). He married a woman named Polly Brickhouse (b. 1760). Their children are Nathaniel Brickhouse (b. 1780) and Benjamin Brickhouse II (1791-1878). Benjamin Brickhouse II was my 4th great grandfather. He married Eliza Collins (b. 1805). Their children are Johnson Brickhouse (b. 1826. He was a Union civil war veteran and my 3rd great grandfather. His daughter was my 2nd great grandmother Esther Brickhouse Bailey who lived from 1862 to 1955) and Benjamin Brickhouse III (b. 1838). My 3rd great-granduncle Benjamin Brickhouse III married Mary Perkins and had the following children of: Florence Brickhouse (b. 1870) and Pauline Brickhouse (1873-1936). Florence Brickhouse was born in Northampton County, Virginia, and she was my 1st cousin. She married George Johnson (1866-1940) on February 23, 1891, in Northampton County, Virginia. Their children are Amos Johnson (b. 1889), George Johnson (b. 1893), and Lenwood Johnson (1896-1972. He married Millie Pearl Kellam White on March 9, 1969, at Accomac, Virginia). My 2nd cousin Amos Johnson had 2 wives. His first wife was Catherine Ames (b. 1892), and they both married on May 18, 1910, at Northampton County, Virginia. Their 2 children are: Donzella Johnson (1910-1978) and Edward Johnson (1916-1979). Amos Johnson's 2nd wife was Rosie S. Hanmann (b. 1900). Their children are: Edwin E. Johnson (b. 1924), Shellman Dewitt Johnson Sr. (1931-2008), Ruth B. Johnson (b. 1933), Vernon L. Johnson (1934-1982. He married Jean Hair [1937-1995] and had many children like Vernon L. Johnson and 2 daughters), Shirley Jeanette Johnson (b. 1936), Rosie B. Johnson (b. 1938), Warfield Lorenzo Johnson (1939-2004), and Cakelvin D. Johnson (b. 1941). All of these children are my 3 cousins. 

 

On my mother's side Charles Peeples and Fannie Brown had a daughter named Lizzie Peeples (1887-1964). Charles and Fannie were my 2nd great-grandparents. Lizzie Peeples married twice. Her first husband was Thomas Spady (b. 1886) with the children of Oldin Spady (b. 1908) and Mason Spady (b. 1911). Her 2nd husband was Jessie Jones, and their children are Viola Emily Jones (1909-1958. She lived in Pocomoke County in Maryland) and John Mason Jones. Viola Emily Jones was my 1st cousin. She married Levin A. Moses Jr. (1905-1986) on October 15, 1927, in Northampton County, Virginia. Viola Emily Jones and Levin A. Moses Jr. had many children who were Ralph Ealie Moses Sr. (1927-2011) and Fannie B. Moses Brittingham (1928-2004). Ralph Ealie Moses Sr. married Lottie Polk Moses and their children are Claudis Moses (1956-2012), Victoria Handy, Brenda Dale, Virginia Borin, Patricia Moses, Timothy Moses, and Ralph Moses II. These children are my 3rd cousins. My 3rd cousin Claudius Moses was born on July 8, 1956, in Salisbury, Maryland. Claudius Moses married his life Carrie Moses of Dover for 26 years. His children lived in Dover and Princess Anne, Maryland. He lived in Dover, Delaware. He has three grandchildren. My 3rd cousin Ralph Moses II married Ophelia Moses (b. 1950), and their children are: Tiffiny N. Moses (b. 1975), Ralph Ealie Moses III (1978-2006), Myra White, and Ericka Johnson. My 2nd cousin Fannie B. Moses Brittingham and James H. Finney Sr. had the child of Theophilus Eugene Moses (1965-2021). She and Vernon Archie Hope (b. 1930) had the child of Annette Denise Moses (b. 1962). Fannie and Richard Thomas Brittingham Sr. (1929-2007) had the children of Arnelda Fannie Brittingham Redding (b. 1953), and Arvenia Viola Brittingham Saunders (b. 1954). 

 

There are tons of Winter Olympic events that have stood the test of time. Bonnie Blair during the games in Calgary, Albertville, and Lillehammer collected six medals. She won the top spot in both the 500m and 1,000m speed skating races in 1992 and in 1994. She was one of the greatest speed skating athletes in history. Hermann Maier overcame a crash to win gold at the Olympics in Nagano in 1998. He won gold in the giant slalom and Super G games. There was the Forgotten Miracle in 1960 when the U.S. ice hockey team defeated Canada for Olympic gold. The U.S. came into the games as severe underdogs who some have said didn't have a chance against the Soviet Union and Canada. Yet, the naysayers were wrong creating one of the greatest Olympic triumphs in history. The U.S. repeated the feat in 1980. Frenchman Jean-Claude Killy swept the alpine skiing events at the 1968 Olympics. Nancy Kerrigan won silver during the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer despite being assaulted by Tonya Harding's ex-husband. 

 

The racist terrorist attack on black people (including 2 white people) via a vicious hate crime shows us that the evil of racism must be condemned. It must be eradicated completely. The murderer had multiple 30-round magazines. The murderer had a 180-page manifesto that promoted the evil myth of replacement theory. This lie teaches the myth that there is a conspiracy by certain people to eliminate the white population from the face of the Earth. The murderers hated black people, Jewish people, and immigrants as shown in his wicked manifesto. He killed innocent people in a Buffalo supermarket on Saturday, May 14, 2022. This act was an act of racially motivated violent terrorism. His murders were shown on Twitch until Twitch banned it. Local authorities and the FBI are investigating the tragedy. A peaceful rally has existed to show compassion to the victims and their families. The Buffalo mayor is right to say that the murders are a racist hate crime period. The killer's name is Payton Gendron. He was not from Buffalo but an area many miles outside of the community. He is from Conklin, New York. Gendron used body armor and had three firearms. He has a semiautomatic rifle, a hunting rifle, and a shotgun. He had a head-mounted camera. On one weapon, there was a racial slur on it. The shooter shot 4 people in the parking out, then he shot people in the store, yelling out racist slurs at people. This proves that racism is not gone. We have an epidemic of racism in America plus throughout the world. Trump, far-right extremists, and far-right media propagandists have promoted this xenophobia, racism, and hatred for decades. Today, the biggest domestic threat in America is still far-right white racist terrorism. The police talked him down from committing suicide. Erie County D.A. John Flynn is looking into potential terrorism and hate crimes. The murderer (who threatened human lives before and warning signs were ignored) faces life in prison without parole as the maximum sentence. The worship of guns above the respect for the dignity of human life is the epitome of the philosophy of far-right extremism. The killer traveled over 100 miles to murder people because of racial hatred. That's evil. These liars even call legitimate gun regulations equivalent to gun confiscation of law-abiding citizens. That is a lie. We don't want law-abiding citizens to be stripped of their rights. We want regulations on guns, so lives can be saved. Geraldine Talley was one of the victims being only 62 when she passed. She was shopping with her fiancé. New York Governor Kathy Hochul has announced a $2.8 million in funding for the victims and their families. A heroic security Aaron Salter sacrificed his life to save others, and he was murdered by the gunman. Also, Buffalo has a long history of racial discrimination, segregation, and economic oppression. So, we must deal with the structural forms of oppression to make Buffalo and the world better.

 

There are many artists in 2022. One artist was Inayah Lamis. She was a singer, songwriter, and a person who is just getting started. She worked in the singing competition shows like American Idol and The Voice. She is from Houston, Texas. In 2022, we have a new generation of artists showing their views like Muni Long's Another, Normani's Fair, Kem's Stuck on You, and Lucky Daye's Over. On May 6, 2022, Ella Mai released her 2nd studio album named Heart on My Sleeve. This album has many ballads and vocals showing her maturity as an artist. The album is about the ups and downs of love plus romance. It even has the gospel singer Kirk Franklin and the R&B legend Mary J. Blige on the album. Her songs on Heart on My Sleeve don't place love in the sense that it's completely perfect. It doesn't sugarcoat how messy relationships are, but it does have the dream that true love can be attained. It's difficult to find true love, the songs want that quest to be fulfilled massively. When she was growing up, she was a fan of Lauryn Hill and Missy Elliot. Music continues to change and grow as we continue to live in the 2020s.  

Jesse Owens has always shown courage and militancy in track and field and outside of the sport. He refuted the Nazi myth of racial inferiority, and he is one of the best athletes of all time. That is why he won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games. True militancy is not just saying words. It is also about using actions to form policies, programs, and institutions to benefit the people collectively. That is why Jesse Owens joined Abe Saperstein to help create the West Coast Negro League in 1946. Owens was the Vice President and owner of the Portland (Oregon) Rosebuds franchise. During one time, he didn't supported the black power salute by African American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Olympics. He changed his mind in his 1972 book called I Have Changed. He wrote that, "I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward." When you think about courage, Jesse Owens represents total courage on the track and in real life to the fullest. 

 

2022 in track and field is one of the most exciting years in track and field professionally in a long time. With the 2022 World Track and Field Championships coming up soon. We know tons of things going on. The 2022 Doha Diamond League results are still occurring. For the women's 200m in Doha, America's Gabrielle Thomas won gold with a time of 21.98, Shericka Jackson of Jamaica was second with the time of 22.07, and Great Britain's Dina Asher-Smith won third with the time of 22.37. For the men's 200m, Noah Lyles of America won first with 19.72, America's Fred Kerley won 2nd with 19.75, and Jereem Richards won third with a time of 20.15. For the 400m, Marilediy Paulino won first with 51.2 seconds (from the Dominican Republic), Stephanie Ann McPherson of Jamaica won 2nd with 51.69, and Shaunae Miller-Uibo won third from the Bahamas with the rime of 52.09. For the men's 400 m, Alison Dos Santos of Brazil won first with 47.49 seconds, Rai Benjamin won 2nd with 47.49 seconds, and Thomas Barr won third with 49.67 seconds.  

By Timothy