Over and over again people ask, “What else do you want?”  They feel that everything is all right.  Well, let them look around at our big cities.  Let them look around Chicago, where a system of internal colonialism flourished in the slums not unlike the exploitation of the Congo by Belgium. --Martin Luther King, Jr. Our memories of Dr. King have been shrewdly pigeonholed into the comfortable moment of his August 1963, “I Have a Dream” speech.  The King who uttered the stateme

I began with a quote from Dr. Woodson because I want readers to know who he was and what motivated him to establish what is now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History in 1915....

Living in a deeply deep red state is not easy.

Statue of Liberty stands in New York harbor, facing east and calling out ....

"Sometimes it seems like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed...."