Black History Month

Was the Lone Ranger Black? Was Bass Reeves the inspiration behind the iconic character, The Lone Ranger?

https://youtu.be/4w6OmHwwAcM Black Girl Magic was started by CaShawn Thompson in 2013 as a way to “celebrate beauty, power, and resilience of Black women,” and has since become a widespread term. We knew all along it existed but didn’t quite know how to describe it. I imagine women like Zelda Barbour Wynn Valdes saw the early […]

Black History Month

Black History Month started in 1926 as Negro History Week, established by a historian named Carter G. Woodson.

Politics

The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., remains one of the most highly investigated and second-guessed murders of our time. While James Earl Ray pled guilty to killing the civil rights leader and was sentenced to life in prison, Coretta Scott King and other members of his inner circle had suggested that Dr. King was a “victim of conspiracy.”

Black History Month

"Lifting As We Climb" has long been the mission of African-American women.

Attending a Historically Black College University can be the best experience that you create it to be. HBCUs are built on a foundation of culture. Listen to the stories of graduates that have amazing reasons why they are proud to be apart of the HBCU Family! It’s important to give back to our HBCUs as we […]

Advocacy is the back bone of criminal justice reform and corporate America is backing the charge. 

Advocacy is the back bone of criminal justice reform and corporate America is backing the charge. 

(edit) Edward Waters College Edward Waters College (EWC) is Florida’s oldest independent institution of higher learning as well as the state’s first institution established for the education of African Americans. Founded by Reverend Charles H. Pearce, a presiding elder of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in 1865.  was sent to Florida to start an […]