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HBCU Sports Tips series

Ronald Bunn — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 08:06:12 +0000

Welcome to our HBCU Sports Tips series, where we dive into the vibrant world of athletics at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. As we enter

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Voices of Change: The Legacy of Orde Coombs

Ronald Bunn — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 22:54:39 +0000

Orde Coombs, born on the island of Saint Vincent in the Caribbean on June 3, 1939, was a trailblazer in the worlds of academia and

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Here! Here! Happy Birthday Greetings Benjamin Banneker

Ellen Levitt — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 12:40:50 +0000

🎂In his time, Benjamin Banneker, born November 9, 1731, was something of a Renaissance man. He was: a surveyor; a writer who penned Almanacs and Ephemeris

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Birthday Greetings “Dick” Bahamian Diet Gregory

Perri Gaffney — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 12:18:05 +0000

🎂Richard “Dick” Claxton Gregory, born October 12, 1932, was raised in St. Louis, MO. Dick Gregory was known for his groundbreaking political and segregation satires and

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Happy Birthday to Ya Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson

Ronald Bunn — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 16:06:40 +0000

🎂Jesse Louis Jackson, born October 8, 1941, is a civil rights activist, Baptist minister, and politician who was a candidate for the Democratic Presidential Nomination

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Birthday Greetings Civil Rights Advocate Michelle Alexander

Ronald Bunn — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 11:45:30 +0000

🎂Michelle Alexander, born October 7, 1967, is a writer, civil rights advocate, and professor at the Union Theological Seminary in NYC. She is best known

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Happy Birthday Reverend Sharpton

Ronald Bunn — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 13:15:23 +0000

🎂Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr., born October 3, 1954, is a civil rights activist, minister, talk show host, and politician. Best known as Al, he is

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Sarah Dash Testimonials

Ronald Bunn — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 19:51:08 +0000

Dear Dash Family, My reflections on my interactions with Sarah: I was a little surprised, when I found the photo, at how long ago it

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Coreen Simpson and the late Melvin Van Peebles

Ronald Bunn — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 14:42:49 +0000

He was always kind and supportive to other artists like me. Once, I asked him if he would write a forward to my future photography

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Happy Birthday Suffragette Mary Church Terrell

Ronald Bunn — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 10:23:30 +0000

🎂Mary Church Terrell (Aka Mary Eliza Church; born September 23, 1863) was one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree She became

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Birthday Greetings Each One Teach One Sister John

Ronald Bunn — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 11:41:21 +0000

🎂Alma Vessells John, born September 22, 1891, was the quintessential community mother who dedicated her life to serving her people, most of whom, she said,

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Happy Birthday NASA Mathematician Dorothy Johnson Vaughan

Ronald Bunn — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:09:02 +0000

🎂Dorothy Johnson Vaughan, born September 20, 1910, was a mathematician who worked for NASA who taught herself how to use machine computers in the early

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The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro by Frederick Douglass

Ronald Bunn — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 23:33:42 +0000

"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.

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