Black History Cat running thru the 28th
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 […]
When the word lynching comes to mind, people usually think of Mississippi and an old oak tree on Massa White’s plantation with the massa pointing to the tree with the cane he got from Nathan […]
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