by admin | Jul 16, 2013 | HUMAN RIGHTS
The South Shore Minority Business Circle by Mary Glolias In 1989 a group of successful minority business people created the South Shore Minority Business Circle “to provide a voice and network for minority owned firms”, said Jackie Roundtree, President of...
by admin | Jul 16, 2013 | LITERATURE
On the Backlash to the Previous Letter After the May 1922 Issue of The Crisis Magazine, was published, W.E.B. Dubois was severely upbraided for his analysis of Lincoln. The following is his response to such criticism which was subsequently published in the September...
by admin | Jul 15, 2013 | ACTIVIST, HUMAN RIGHTS
THE POLITICAL AWAKENING OF IDA B. WELLS by Paul Lee On the morning of February 13, 1893, a tiny, coffee-colored former school teacher appeared before the Boston Monday Lecture series at Tremont Temple. “It was…my first opportunity to address a white...
by admin | Jul 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
Native Son 50 Years Later by Sarah E. King Southside Chicago, 10 PM. A 15-year-old Black girl returns to her home in a dilapidated housing project after working all day at a fast food restaurant. Her ten month old baby is waiting for her, because his father, a...
by admin | Jul 6, 2013 | SCIENCE, Uncategorized
Reaching for the Stars: Blacks in Space by Tracy Dixon Without the dedicated work of Black scientists, humans would never have walked on the moon. From devices for tracking space ships, to rocket engines and airborne radar systems, Blacks have continuously played a...
