Blog

The photo associated with this Blog on the home page is of Arthur Ashe and Dr. Robert Walter Johnson. The Pierce Street Renaissance Historic District is only two blocks long...

"It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance." -Thomas Sowell   Author Jason Riley...

Teaching black history is broken. If you look at public school history books grades six through twelve, you will not see most of the exceptional accomplishments of blacks...

Some leaders do well in politics, some in philanthropic areas, the medical field, some in business, entertainment, or education. A few leaders are faithful servants of the...

Dr. Ernest E. Just was born in 1883, after the Reconstruction era in Charleston, South Carolina. It was a time when blacks joined the Republican Party, began to vote, and...

Fisk University was founded in 1866 in Nashville, Tennessee, as a predominately black university. In 1871, the school was in financial need, and the choir director, George...

Using the pen name Robert Hayden, Asa Bundy Sheffey was a gifted poet who wrote elegant poems about black history and other African American themes. Shortly after his birth...

Annie Bethel Bannister was the only child of Sarah Louise Scales and Joel Cephus Bannister who were freed slaves. Born in 1882, and at the age of eleven, Annie was enrolled...

Paul R. Williams was a great architect, artist, leader, and trailblazer with wide-ranging, compelling designs for residential and commercial use. Paul took an interest in...