If we are allowed to have guns (under the second amendment), are we allowed to have them if we are brown skinned? Are we all to be armed when going to the movies, the mall, the club, the grocery store? If so, when we are brown, do the open carry laws apply to people like…
Read more11 Black American Icons You Won’t Learn About On MLK Jr. Day — But Should
I would add to the list of 11 Black Americans you won’t learn about on MLK day the following: the 24th infantry in the Korean War, the Tuskeegee Airmen, Marcus Garvey, Fannie Lou Hamer, Medgar Evers, A. Phillip Randolph, my namesake Adam Clayton Powell, Kwamee Ture, Sojourner Truth, Thurgood Marshall…the list is mighty long. I…
Read moreWhat do Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Bill Cosby and this man have in common? “Responsi-damn-bility.”
I’ll tell you what Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Bill Cosby, Frederick Wilson II and Clayton Craddock all have in common….the message of taking personal responsibility for your actions. Or, as my man in the video below said, “responsi-damn-bility.” I hope more people can hear this message, again, because it seems to have been repeated…
Read moreBlack Thought and Self Reliance
I’m reading The Souls Of Black Folk by W.E.B.DuBois now. A great book and a must read for all Americans. Published in 1903, it explored a variety of subjects of black life in that time period. It’s a great reminder of how many things HAVE NOT changed since then. I say this because today is…
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