This is an opinion column.

Yesterday is today’s foundation. It reveals our strengths and cracks.

That’s why I love history. It cannot be changed and ignoring it only leads to ignorance — to the risk of repeating its worst.

History reminds us who’ve been, our heroes and villains, our champions and cowards.

In my weekly newsletter, The Barbershop , I feature little-known or largely forgotten historical moments or people to, in part, chronicle how far we’ve come. Often in just my lifetime. Though in these perilous times when the Trump administration is unceasingly and intently trying to drag us back to beyond Jim Crow , it’s easier to believe we’ve not gotten very far at all.

Brown men and women are being snatched from our streets for lack of a piece of paper from the government. Att

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