NOT CREATED EQUAL For many us as parents, we dreamed of letting our little girls one day compete in sports; this was the case as well in the Black community. Seeing the likes of track stars Florence Griffith Joyner, and her sister-in-law, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, as well...
THE SCARLET U “Mostly, I’m tired of people being ugly to each other. I’m tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world every day. There’s too much of it. It’s like pieces of glass in my head, all the time… Can you understand?”...
As hard as it is to believe, that is the question our grandchildren, or in some instances our great-grandchildren will be asking. In fact, if those of us that personally witnessed it had not, we would not believe it had ever happened. Aside from the documentary...
DYSTOPIA “We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force....
