On February 14, 1965, Malcolm X made his last public speech. This speech was made after his house was firebombed and a week before he was assassinated. Tweet
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Book Excerpt Of The Week: “The Big Sea” By: Langston Hughes
“Some critics say that that is what happened to certain Negro writers too opinion that they ceased to write to amuse themselves and began to write to amuse and entertain white people, and in so doing distorted and over-colored their material, and left out a great many things they thought would offend their American brothers […]
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PLEASE PASS THIS ON! (EACH ONE TEACH ONE OR TWO!) THIS IS PHASE ONE ON HOW WE CAN HELP TO STRENGTHEN & EMPOWER OUR COMMUNITY: The 2008 not guilty verdict in the Sean Bell case evoked outrage, emotion, and debate. It is not an anomaly that the police officers involved in the Sean Bell slaying […]
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“He that would govern others first should be master of himself.” Tweet
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“When the sit-in movement started in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960 black people of nearby Danville had also been stirred to sit-in. There main focus then was on desegregating the ‘public’ library. As everywhere in the South, black people were denied the use of the town’s main library and assigned (in Danville, but not in […]
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On this day, February 12, in 1793, The United States Congress passed the first fugitive slave law to be added to the Constitution. This law allowed any slave owner to appear before a magistrate and declare that their slave had escaped. The slave owner could make this declaration orally or in writing, and an order […]
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“The worse among us are those people who seek power, get into positions of power, believe in and even are boastful about the power they have, and do nothing with it except enhance themselves.” -Maxine Waters Tweet
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The Steve Biko Garden of Remembrance Tweet
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On this day, February 11, in 1990, Nelson Mandela was finally released from prison. Tweet
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“I came to understand that my craving for professional success could not be satisfied at the expense of my conscience and on terms other than my own.” -Johnnie Cochran Tweet
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