by Reneegede | Feb 28, 2017 | Opinion
In closing out Black History Month 2017, it is with a saddened heart that I must write today’s essay on the truest and deepest impact of racism and racist activity in America, not the semi-gloss surface paint impact that we are often most comfortable with. Yeah,...
by Chum Sejimon | Jul 12, 2016 | Blog, History
Gaming has been one of America’s favorite sources of entertainment long before tech advancements brought us such games as Grand Theft Auto or Assassin’s Creed. Throughout the past 30 years, we’ve seen the evolution of gaming develop ten-fold from...
by Freddie Ra | Jun 3, 2016 | Profiles in Black History
Born Isabella in 1797 in Ulster Country, New York, she ran away from slavery in 1843 and changed her name to Sojourner Truth. At a time when oratory was a fine art, Sojourner Truth, through her strong character and acid intelligence, was among the best and most famous...
by Freddie Ra | Jun 2, 2016 | Profiles in Black History
Born on April 23, 1856 in Columbus, Ohio, Granville Woods was the individual most responsible for modernizing the railroad. During his lifetime, Granville T. Woods earned over thirty-five patents ranging from a steam boiler furnace in 1884, an incubator in 1900, to...
by Freddie Ra | Jun 1, 2016 | Profiles in Black History
Carter Godwin Woodson, the father of “Black History,” was born on December 19, 1875 in New Canton, Virginia. Despite the pioneering efforts of many Black writers and scholars, the systematic treatment of Black history was not achieved until 1915 when...
by Freddie Ra | May 31, 2016 | Profiles in Black History
A civil rights leader who urged African Americans to work within the system, Whitney Moore Young, as executive director of the National Urban League from 1961 to 1971, played a leading role in persuading America’s corporate elite to provide better opportunities...
by Freddie Ra | May 30, 2016 | Profiles in Black History
Raised in abolitionist traditions by his minister father, A. Philip Randolph mirroed those beliefs for more than 60 years as a champion of equal rights. He came to national prominence by organizing the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and achieved the first union...
by Freddie Ra | May 27, 2016 | Profiles in Black History
As a diplomat who accomplished the seemingly impossible by negotiating the 1949 armistice between one-year-old Israel and its Arab neighbors, Ralph Bunche demonstrated that there is more than one way to resolve an issue. For that he earned the Nobel Prize for Peace in...
by Freddie Ra | May 26, 2016 | Africa, Afro-Latinx, Did You Know, History, Profiles in Black History
The Los Angeles Pobladores, or “townspeople,” were a group of 44 settlers and four soldiers from Mexico who established the famed city on this day in 1781 in what is now California. The settlers came from various Spanish castes, with over half of the group being...
by Freddie Ra | May 26, 2016 | Profiles in Black History
If an honest history of the deep South is ever written, Dr. George Washington Carver will stand out as one of the truly great men of his time. Born of slave parents in 1860 in Diamond, Missouri, Dr. buy trazodone online...
