As the 2020 Presidential campaign unfolds, history marks the 150th anniversary of the 15th Amendment which gave Black men the right to vote and paved the...
Today marks the centennial birthday of the late William Warfield, one of the world’s most renown bass-baritone singers. Warfield began his storied life in Arkansas where...
The National Day of Racial Healing, which the W.K. Kellogg Foundation started as part of its Truth, Racial Healing & Reconciliation campaign, provided America another opportunity...
As the nation spends the week reviewing the Constitution, a long-forgotten clause is drawing the attention of some Constitutional Law professors and even a Supreme Court...
Family, friends, and supporters celebrated Alex Haley’s 98th birthday over the weekend at his childhood home in Henning, Tennessee. In 1976 Haley introduced America to the...
For me, the song “This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land” just about sums up the whole conversation about celebrating the Fourth of...
The water lapped against the shore of Mobile Bay where James Fralin hauled in blue crab for a day’s work. Like so many others, Fralin had...
The campus of the Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, known also as the “Lynching Memorial” features a series of very moving statues. There...
The summer of 1919 was an extraordinarily bloody period of racial violence in American history, so much so that black author and activist, James Weldon Johnson...