February is right around the corner, and with it, Black History Month. Black History Month was originated in 1926 and is held in February because that particular month contains the birthdays of two Americans who have had a profound and positive effect on the lives of African Americans, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. Here is ...
Today the black man mostly likely to be elected President is Barack Obama. The tale of Colin Powell and Barack Obama leads one to search deeper into the history of African-Americans and political parties. How did the party of Abraham Lincoln, the man who emancipated blacks from the position of owned property in America, become ...
As an African immigrant one of the things that perturbs me about living in the United States is the relationship between Africans and native-born blacks. For a long time I have had a problem with the term “African American.” I guess I am one of those old-school people who believe in the 1970s motto, “Say ...
When I was in college, I joined a civil rights organization called the DuBois Club. The DuBois clubs were widely known to be communist fronts but the plan by my friends and me was to infiltrate it and use it for non-communist civil rights activities. Not much came of any of this but I did ...
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