Julian Bond: January 14, 1940 – August 15, 2015
Photo By Eduardo Montes-Bradley
THE BLACK FAMILY PLEDGE By Dr. Maya Angelou BECAUSE we have forgotten our ancestors, our children no longer give us honor. BECAUSE we have lost the path our ancestors cleared kneeling in perilous undergrowth, our children cannot find their way. BECAUSE we have banished the God of our ancestors, our children cannot pray. BECAUSE the
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