Black History Cat running thru the 28th
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” Lord Acton – 1887 It’s hard to believe it was 28 years ago that black Americans were torn between […]
Black Soldiers Digging in For Battle, Versilia Italy 1944 I slowly turned over and could see through the haze of sleep my momma in the kitchen. We lived in a cabin with two rooms. In […]
Black History Month – February 18, 1931 This past February I did a story on Toni Morrison in celebration of her birthday on February 18, 1931. Monday, August 5, 2019, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner […]
In The Beginning.. When I first started writing this news blog a couple of years ago, I wrote a story about Dr Henry Bello and Charles Lee Thornton. Bello (pictured left) was the doctor that […]
The youngest person to ever be put to death in the United States was a 14 year old black child named George Stinney. With every thing going on now and by that I mean the […]
Ever heard of Lei Yixin? Most African American’s have not. Yixin is the Chinese sculptor that designed the Stone of Hope, and the statue of Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington DC on the National Mall. You […]
Not sure how many of you remember the black man shot to death in his garage because neighbors complained his music was too loud, but his name was Gregory Hill Jr. He was shot three […]
As we all know or most of us from seeing the documentary on Netflix called ” When They See Us,” the Central Park Five were a group of four young African Americans and one Hispanic […]
I moved to West Virginia almost nine years ago and it never fails to amaze me the contributions people from this state have made in politics, science, sports and entertainment. When we think about West […]
As a lot of us know and were alive at the time, Katrina was one of the most devastating hurricanes to hit the US mainland. It made landfall on August 29, 2005. It killed over […]
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