On July 8, 2021, Zaila Avant-garde became the first African American in the nearly 100 years of the competition to win the 2021 Scripps National spelling bee champion! Let\’s all take a moment to celebrate her magnificent achievement! Congratulations Zaila!
A few days ago, an Uber driver I had on the way home from work told me that “The older you get, the more your doctor tells you to laugh—so I laugh a lot!” It was the eighteenth of June. I had learned earlier that the White House made Juneteenth a federal holiday, and, since
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The Black Dispatch, June 10, 1921 \”Dr. Arthur Jackson, ex-president of the State Medical Association, was shot down by a white boy about sixteen or seventeen years old, according to eyewitnesses. He was rushing up from his basement of his home, which was in flames, with his hands in the air. Two loads from a
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May 31st memorializes not only the many Americans that gave the ultimate sacrifice in service of their country, but it also memorializes the Black Americans in the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma. May 31st was the 2-day start of one of the bloodiest massacres in American history where \”Black Wallstreet\” was leveled at the hands
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I am not a follower of the Kentucky Derby or any horse race for that matter. I do like the sight of a beautiful horse, especially a black one! And that, I’m afraid, is where my interest in horses ends. However, I do have a vested interest in Black people’s role and contribution to American
April 16, 1862 marks the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. Over 3,000 enslaved persons were freed eight months before the Emancipation Proclamation liberated slaves in the South. The District also has the distinction of being the only part of the United States to have compensated slave owners for freeing enslaved persons they
“The Wonder Women Of Vogue” Leiomy Maldonado, trans activist, and dance icon is one of ballroom’s leading visionaries. She is the unofficial head honcho of voguing for over a decade now and thanks to her hair whipping and high energy flips and dips, Maldonado has shaped the art form to what it is today. The
baVulnerability is the primary issue when it comes to the Black community and capitalism. By definition, capitalism serves as the sourcing for labor and value that comes out of it. Slavery was the first instance of the wheel of capitalism going 360. Round and round in the realm of building white America off the backs
Sunday, March 7th marks fifty-six years to the day when Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and John Lewis, Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), led a group of Civil Rights marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. They were stopped by 150 Alabama state troopers, sheriffs deputies, and possemen, who
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Sunday, March 7th marks fifty-six years to the day when Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and John Lewis, Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), led a group of Civil Rights marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. They were stopped by 150 Alabama state troopers, sheriffs deputies, and possemen, who
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