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Amazon.com Widgets Queen Mother Moore – African American Reparations Leader/Garveyite At the time of her passing, at age 99 on May 2, 1997, Queen Mother Moore held the distinction of … Read More
Brown v. Board of Education On May 17, 1954, the US Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education, a history altering decision, that, “in the … Read More
The Long Road to Brown, 1865-1954 Long before the 1954 brown v Board of Education, African Americans across the South fought against the Apartheid system of Jim Crow and for quality … Read More
African American activists know May 19th as the birthday of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, or Malcolm X. As fate would have it, renowned African internationalist and Pan Africanist scholar, … Read More
“The past is in the past; it’s time to move on.” That’s a common response to Ta-Nehisi Coates’ eloquent essay in The Atlantic, “The Case for Reparations,” and his recent discussion with Bill Moyers. But that sentiment betrays a fundamental…
On April 27, 2014, the legendary DJ E-Z Rock died: “According to a Facebook post from longtime partner MC Rob Base, DJ E-Z Rock died on Sunday April 27, 2014. … Read More
Spotlight on Congressman John Conyers Jr First African American Dean of Congress In January 2015, Congressman John Conyers Jr, officially became the first African American Dean of Congress. The retirement of … Read More
