History: An Update
As one who taught high school for 30 years, I have always believed in the power of education. It is the best and perhaps the only way to narrow the…
Black History
History And Pride
For the past couple of years I have been reading about the antebellum South, the Civil War, and the so-called Reconstruction era that followed. My reading has uncovered a number…
Things Ron DeSantis Doesn’t Want People To Know
JAMES BALDWIN addresses the University Of Cambridge during his epochal debate with William F. Buckley in 1965. Oratory and content of the very highest order. To listen is to learn.…
A Hidden History
Ideally, history teaches us about the past so that we can gain perspective on what came before and learn some lessons so that we don’t make the same mistakes made…
With A Humble Heart
These past many weeks have been difficult ones. We have been largely confined to our homes; social ties we have nurtured for years are under stress, if for no other…
Aboriginal leader: “We’ve to acknowledge that Australia has a Black history”
by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 4, 2013: “We’ve to acknowledge that Australia has a Black history”, an Aboriginal leader said last week as he “reflected on pain,…