Coreen Simpson and the late Melvin Van Peebles
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... Read More
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Happy Birthday Suffragette Mary Church Terrell
🎂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... Read More
Birthday Greetings Each One Teach One Sister John
🎂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,... Read More
Happy Birthday NASA Mathematician Dorothy Johnson Vaughan
🎂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... Read More
The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro by Frederick Douglass
"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.... Read More