by admin | Aug 3, 2017 | HISTORY
America’s first Black Owned Modeling Agency Business Leader Black America has many truly great institutions. Ophelia DeVore is one of them. She is a woman of the most remarkable beauty. She recalls always wanting to communicate with others. “That’s...
by admin | Aug 3, 2017 | LITERATURE
50 Years Later “Even today is my complaint rebellious…” Fifty years ago, Richard Wright chose this line from Job, words at once plaintive and defiant, as a telling epigraph to his novel Native Son. The actual novel then begins with the prophetic...
by admin | Aug 2, 2017 | HISTORY
Oration in memory of Abraham Lincoln by Frederick Douglas, given on April 14, 1876, the anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination and of the emancipation of the slaves in the District of Columbia. All day long he could split heavy rails in the woods, and half the...
by admin | Jul 25, 2017 | FILM
Life as an Up and Coming Superstar In 1993 “It’s time for…Black women to start taking a stand. And if we stop taking those kinds of roles they keep offering us, if nobody will do it, they won’t be able to just offer them to us….”...
