Jefferson Thomas, who as a teenager was among nine black students to integrate a Little Rock high school in the nation’s first major battle over school segregation, has died. He was 67.
A month ago, six African-American teenagers drowned in a single incident in Louisiana, prompting soul-searching about why so many young black Americans can’t swim.
Forty, 50, even 60 years later, Athens High and Industrial School and Burney-Harris High School alumni still remember their school song. More than 100 of them sang it Saturday after unveiling a plaque marking the site of Georgia’s first high school for African Americans at what’s now a vacant lot at the corner of North […]
My friend and I watched looters gleefully make mad dashes into the corner grocery store; their arms bulged with liquor bottles and cigarette cartons. Suddenly, my friend shouted out as if he was speaking to an audience, “Maybe now they’ll see how rotten they treat us.” The “they” was the white man. His words were, […]
FORT WORTH, TX — Patients would show up at all hours. Sometimes with a broken arm, or a burst appendix, or a baby on the way. They filled the wards of the 20-bed hospital that Dr. Riley Ransom Sr. opened in 1914, and they spilled into the large convalescent porch. From early in the morning […]
Ralph Bunche was an American diplomat and political scientist whose work on domestic policy and foreign affairs shaped the struggle for human rights. Bunche was…
According to blackamericaweb.com, Vonetta Flowers always wanted to go to the Olympics. But she could have never imagined that her triumph would be in a sport she’d barely heard of, much less ever attempted – and in the Winter Games at that. A Birmingham, Alabama native, Flowers was a decorated track and field athlete who […]
Here is Dr. Martin Luther King’s I Have A Dream Speech IN 1963, (video, transcript)
