“Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman?” Sojourner Truth asked this question in her famous Ain’t I…
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Brown v. the Board of Education was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court that forever changed the “legal” practice of segregated education in America. It was clear…
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Access is the ability or the right to approach, enter, exit or communicate with or to make use of… Opportunity is a chance for progress or advancement. If some people,…
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The “R” word (racism) is one of the most misunderstood, misinterpreted and misused words within the context of the American cultural landscape. People use it to describe other people, situations, and behaviors that often have nothing to do with racism or being racist. Racism, itself, is a social-political construct; an invention to institutionally divide power along lines based on the color of one’s skin. It was created to define that which is superior and that which is inferior.
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Oh freedom, oh freedom, oh freedom over me…what we know about freedom is that freedom sure ain’t free! There is a cost to be paid for freedom in blood and…
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The prestigious historian and author of The Mis-Education of the Negro, Dr. Carter G. Woodson originally conceived Black History Month, also known as African American History Month, in 1929 in…
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Like in the days of Gandhi and King when folks filled the streets in non-violent protest, what if (en masse) black & brown folks inundated the governmental granting agencies with…
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a man who with the help of countless others pricked the consciousness of a nation and unleashed the Civil Right Movement in America causing…
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