Black History Cat running thru the 28th
Beauregard: General I’m not able to fight in the war against the Northern aggressors because of my foot spurs… however my boy Othello will fight in my stead… General: We can’t give that boy a […]
I grew up in a neighborhood called Manor Park in Washington DC. It is better known as Takoma Park but Takoma Park is the adjacent neighborhood. Manor Park starts at Tuckerman and ends at Missouri […]
Who is Jimmy Lee Jackson? Well, he is one of those unsung heroes who played a pivotal part in one of the major events of the Civil Rights movement. Every March 7, we pay remembrance […]
On July 17, 1944, one of the biggest disasters in naval history occurred in California at a place called Port Chicago. Now why they would name a place in California “Port Chicago,” is a matter […]
On April 4, 1968 the world stopped in shock as the news of the assassination of the Dr Martin Luther King began to circulate. I was in class at Rabaut Jr. School in Washington DC […]
A lot of us are familiar with the phrase “cotton pickin..” You know what I mean.. ” That’s some cotton pickin b***sh*t, or mind your cotton pickin business, or the ever faithful, it’s cotton pickin […]
On May 23, 1861 Virginia seceded from the United States by a vote of 132,201 to 37,451. A month earlier Robert Lee had resigned his commission in the United States Army and was placed in […]
There has been a viral post on social media concerning a 1786 law called the Tignon Law. Before we get into what the law did, first let’s talk about what a Tignon is. Most men […]
When I started to write this article, a tune from long ago popped into my head. It was written by Ralph Rainger and Leo Robison in 1938 and became the signature song of Bob Hope. […]
The Birmingham Effect is similar to the Butterfly Effect. Both systems say that a small effect can have a profound bearing on larger more complex system. For instance you may have heard with reference to […]
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