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Tribute To Rev. James Lawson: At 90, Still Tireless Warrior for Soci-economic and Political Justice
Rev. James Lawson. Photo: Vanderbilt.edu This is how Rev. James Lawson puts it: “The way through chaos, calamity, and confusion is not by adding ...
NFL, PGA, NBA, NHL, MLB: A Star is Born
The first quarter of the NFL season has proven Hollywood is not the only one who can do, yet another reiteration, of “A Star ...
William R. Howard, President of the West Indian American Day Carnival Association Dies at 75
William R. Howard. Photo–Facebook. (WIADCA). William R. (Bill) Howard, President of the West Indian American Day Carnival Association, known as the Labor Day Parade, ...
Why Trump’s Black Approval Rating Crashed From 15% to 4%
Omarosa said Black would kneel before Trump. Where did it get her? Photo: Gage Skidmore-Flickr What does Trump know, or care, about American Blacks’ ...
History 101 for Trump: Haiti Defeated Napoleon’s Powerful French Army
Reading is a book thing. Toussaint on cover of early edition of C.L.R. James Black Jacobins? The renowned intellectual and abolitionist Frederick Douglass shared ...
No Success Without Successor — Nominations Soon for Urban League 25
Marc Morial. Photo-YouTube This is how Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., a past present of the Urban League once out it: “You are where you ...
Book Review: Herb Boyd’s “Black Detroit”
Author Herb Boyd. Photo–Flickr BLACK DETROIT A People’s History of Self- Determination Herb Boyd 352 pp. Amistad “Who would be free themselves must strike ...
President Trump Is Proof Positive That Ignorance is Bliss — And Dangerous
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”–Martin Luther King, Jr. “I Love the Poorly Educated” Donald ...
Hubert Harrison: 134 Year Birthdate Anniversary
[Education: The Archives] Hubert H. Harrison Founder of First Organization and First Newspaper Of the Militant “New Negro Movement” Hubert H. Harrison ...
“Fake News”? Without Courageous Media Civil Rights Progress Would Have been Delayed
Pioneering journalist Ida B. Wells. Source: YouTube Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., knew the power of media and once observed: “The brutality with which ...
