Originally named Preparatory High School for Colored Youth and later known as M Street High School, Paul Laurence Dunbar. Founded as an educational mission at the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church, Dunbar was America\’s first public high school for black students. It was later the academic high school, with other schools related to vocational or technical …
In mathematics and physics, a soliton is a self-reinforcing solitary wave that maintains its shape while it travels at constant speed. Kurt Johnson describes it as “an intelligent particle that has an associated awareness”, with “each person having a single soliton\”. SOLTION, LLC is built upon a similar concept that everyone has a contribution, purpose, …
January 31, 2015 Despite below freezing temperatures, between 75 and 100 men, young and old, participated this morning in the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, Men’s Summit. The summit was called to start a dialog between young men in the District of Columbia and the Metropolitan Police department (MPDC). In the wake of the deaths of …
January 19, 2015 I grew up, like many young black kids, celebrating Black history week. I ran to the encyclopedias my father had wisely salvaged from someone else’s discards and wrote my traditional report on Booker T. Washington, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglas, or George Washington Carver and waited for next year to come around to …
