Paul Robeson http://www.biography.com/people/paul-robeson-9460451 http://www.cpsr.cs.uchicago.edu/robeson/bio.html https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/robeson http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/paul-robeson-about-the-actor/66/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-paul-robeson-said-77742433/ https://www.democracynow.org/2013/2/12/remembering_the_overlooked_life_eslanda_robeson http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steve-mcqueen-says-paul-robeson-was-renaissance-man-20th-century-946493

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Let us for a moment consider the man who mainstream media does not want us to see. The man who opposed the Vietnam War. The man who stood up for poor people. The man who stood up for janitors on strike. The man who…. well do some of your own […]

Malcolm X On this day in 1965, our shining Black manhood as so eloquently eulogized by Ossie Davis was violently taken from us. Since that dreadful day, we have yet to have another “Black Messiah” replace him. I use the phrase “Black Messiah” to evoke the fearful words that spurned a witch hunt by the […]

Betty Shabazz and Coretta Scott King It seems to me that the above-mentioned matriarchs have not been held in high enough esteem. When I think of the daunting task of carrying the torches their husbands left them after being assassinated and being mothers to their children, while never remarrying they should be placed on a […]

Chloe Wofford or better known as Toni Morrison is by far one the best human beings to ever pick up a writing utensil. Her literature is timeless. Ms. Morrison used her unique vision to eloquently give life to black people in fiction literature in a way her contemporaries and those who followed in her footsteps […]

The city of Rosewood, Florida shares a similar past with the Greenwood District of Oklahoma. http://www.blackpast.org/aah/rosewood-massacre-1923 http://www.rosewoodflorida.com/history http://www.displaysforschools.com/history.html http://thegrio.com/2012/01/04/rosewood-remembering-an-african-american-tragedy/