Posts Tagged ‘African American history’
Back to the Edmund Petus Bridge
by Marceline Donaldson Something is oddly familiar in this “stand-off: now going on amongst our government officials, politicians, hopefuls and a very oppressed group which Alabama and others are trying desperately to contain and keep in their oppressed state. Even the current Governor of Alabama has come public and done a modernized version of Governor…
Read MoreThe Last Word: Stay Woke – A Memorial to Dick Gregory
By: Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. August 23, 2017 “It is through our struggles that we gain victories” Stay Woke are words to remember from my best friend–the one and only Dick Gregory. Who in Black America (or America for that matter) hasn’t heard of Dick Gregory? I certainly had known him for years before…
Read MoreDonald Trump = U. S. Terrorist
It is now conclusively proven – Trump is a terrorist. This weekend broadcast that for the world to see. He is the Hitler of this ‘Alt-Right’ movement. We now also know where the Nazi’s went when they were thrown out of Germany. Their heirs and progeny are carrying on their mission in the United States.…
Read MoreAnd God laughed………..
Well, once again the United States Court system has come through – keeping to its Constitutional mandates. This time, however, there is a side issue and in that issue one can see God’s hand. The decision to block Donald Trump’s bigotry as it constantly spews out of the White House and out of his every…
Read MoreAileen Clark Hernandez – (1926-2017)
by: Marceline DonaldsonI won’t say rest in peace. I will say I hope you are living your life after life in a heaven in which everyone is equal – where love abounds – where justice has no meaning because the evils of this life have all fallen away. At the end of life, one begins…
Read MoreTruth Telling Time!
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Read MoreJACK GREENBERG – NAACP Legal Defense Fund
by: Marceline Donaldson I read this morning of the death of Jack Greenberg and it hit me much harder than I would have expected. Jack Greenberg, Percy Julian, Dolores Orey and so many others are among the people who surrounded me at a very dire time of my life. I am so grateful for the fact…
Read MoreTO CELEBRATE JULY 4th AND TO REMEMBER
The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro (Ed. Note: 25 to 35 Million Africans were robbed of their freedom; taken from their country and put into slavery for 400 plus years – first by the Arabs and then by Europeans and Americans – Southern Americans, but the people in America who most benefitted from…
Read MoreThe Rev. Nicholas Hood
by: Marceline Donaldson, April 11, 2016 Some remembrances write themselves. This one is being written through heavy grief because it is not only a memory of Nicholas Hood, but long overdue grieving of my youth and someone who contributed majorly to who I am as a Christian today. Nicholas Hood is in my heart and…
Read MoreSandra Bland – Strange Fruit
Once upon a time, the “Strange Fruit, hanging from the trees” used to be from trees with green leaves, a trunk and branches growing up from the ground splattered with red. Today, the “Strange Fruit, hanging from the trees” is hanging from man-made trees with blue reflected all around. But look! Isn’t that the old…
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