He was African-American. He died in San Francisco. He influenced Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was the dean of chapels at Howard and Boston Universities and the first black dean of a majority-white university in the United States. He co-founded the first major interdenominational church in the United States, the Church of Fellowship of […]
Read more "Howard Thurman"She is 60 years old and celebrated the 50th year reunion of her integrating the school in 2010. The Norman Rockwell painting was entitled: “The Problem we all Live With”. Bridges thought the people were shouting for Marti Gras, not in protest of her integrating the school. All the white kids were pulled out of […]
Read more "Ruby Bridges"Brad Pitt is an executive producer. I had no idea Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. smoked cigarettes. The actors playing Rev. Ralph Abernathy and Bayard Rustin were superb. Sammy Davis Jr. and Harry Belafonte were but two celebrities participating in the walk as seen in archival footage in the film. There was little difference in […]
Read more "Selma"Sunrise 1/7/1891 Nostasulga, Alabama, sunset 1/28/60 in Florida. She was a PK, preacher’s kid. She grew up in Eatonville, Florida, an all-black town. She worked as a maid and a singer. During her life she had 4 novels published, most notably Their Eyes Were Watching God, and 50 short stories, plays, and essays. She lied […]
Read more "Zora Neale Hurston"She was born Eunice Waymon. She changed her name so her mother wouldn’t know she was playing non-church music a.k.a. the devil’s music a.k.a. jazz. She wanted to be the first black classical pianist to play Carnegie Hall. She wrote Mississippi Goddam after the deaths of Medgar Evans and the girls in the church in […]
Read more "Nina Simone"James Baldwin was brilliant. Samuel L. Jackson has redeemed himself. This should be the bible on race. Martin Luther King Jr. sunrise 1/15/29 Atlanta, Georgia, sunset 4/4/68 Memphis, Tennessee. Malcolm X sunrise 5/19/25 Omaha Nebraska, sunset 2/21/65 Manhattan, New York Medgar Evers sunrise 7/2/25 Decatur, Mississippi, sunset 6/12/63 Jackson, Mississippi. It’s directed by Raoul Peck […]
Read more "“I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO” #WeAreEverywhere"“[y]oung people think Rosa Parks just sat down on a bus and ended segregation, but that wasn’t the case at all.”
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