Black History Month

Black History Month -February 2, 2019 On February 2nd 1990, F.W de Klerk gave a speech to the South African Parliament after winning the general election on September 6, 1989. The speech effectively ended apartheid […]

Black History Month -February 1, 2019 Being the first to do something is not always a good thing. Take the story of George Washington Johnson. He was the first African-American recording star of the phonograph. He was […]

Today is the first day of Black History Month. As I think about what this time represents to million of blacks in this country, I know the fight is no where near over. There are […]

In 1972 the United States was a tumultuous place.  It was the beginning of modern terrorism as we know it today, which accumulated in the Munich Olympics terrorist attack in September of that year. Gas, […]

For years, Angelou, who died in 2014, did not celebrate her own birthday — a painful reminder of King’s death. But for over 30 years, she and King’s widow, Coretta Scott King, would meet, call […]

Through the years we all heard the story about our first President’s teeth being made out of wood. For as long as I remember George Washington’s teeth were made of of wood. But you know […]

On this day in 2013, the movement began with the use of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on social media after the acquittal of megalomaniac George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African-American teen Trayvon Martin the preceding February. Black Lives Matter became nationally recognized for its street demonstrations […]

Charlotte E. Ray was the first Black American female lawyer in the United States. Ray graduated from Howard University School of Law in 1872. She was also the first female admitted to the District of Columbia Bar, and the first woman admitted to […]