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Once You Learn How to Read, You Will Be Forever Free!~Frederick Douglass
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James Baldwin Born August 2, 1924 in Harlem, NY, Died December 1 1987, St. Paul-de-Vence, France
The first of nine children of Berdis (Jones) a clergyman and a factory worker, David (step-father), in Harlem, NY. Baldwin was a storefront preacher for three years starting at [...]

Claudia Rankine was born in Jamaica in 1963. She earned her B.A. in English from Williams College and her M.F.A. in poetry from Columbia University. She is the author of four collections of poetry, including Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (Graywolf 2004); PLOT (2001); The End of the Alphabet (1998); and Nothing in Nature is [...]

Five myths about mosques in America
By Edward E. Curtis IV
Curtis is millennium chair of liberal arts at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He is the author of “Muslims in America: A Short History” and the editor of the “Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History.”
Source: Washington Post
Sunday, August 29, 2010; B03
In addition to spawning passionate debates in the [...]

In 1990, Activist and Legendary actors, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis visited Fort Wayne, IN to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of Gingerbread House Preschool center. A portion of their Panel Discussion appeared on a talks show entitled “A New Generation”.
Via www.SoulVisionTV.com

July 14, 2010 (Chicago) – The Urban Libraries Council awarded Mr. Asante Cain, Reference and Adult Services Coordinator at the Grand Rapids Public Library in Michigan, with the 2010 Urban Libraries Council (ULC) Joey Rodger Fund for Library Leadership. Cain was honored at ULC’s Annual Membership Meeting & Awards Breakfast on June 26th in [...]

Once you learn how to read, you will be forever free~Frederick Douglass
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Karla FC Holloway is James B.Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Professor Holloway is the author of eight books, including Passed On: African-American Mourning Stories (2002) and BookMarks–Reading in Black and White, A Memoir (2006) completed during a residency in Bellagio, Italy as [...]

Mark Winston Griffith, a nationally recognized economic justice advocate and co-founder of the Central Brooklyn Federal Credit Union, is now a executive director of the Brooklyn Movement Center, a community-organizing group based in Central Brooklyn. He was born in Brooklyn and has lived there all of his adult life.
I came across Mr. Griffith in [...]

If you learn how to read, you will be forever free~Frederick Douglass
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Carole C. Marks is a professor of sociology at the University of Delaware and the coauthor of The Power of Pride: Stylemakers and Rulebreakers of the Harlem Renaissance.
Robert Stepto’s fields of interest include early African American narratives (Equiano to Douglass and Jacobs), American Renaissance [...]

If you learn how to read, you will be forever free! ~ Frederick Douglass
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Listen to an interview with James T. Paris on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show
James T. Patterson is Ford Foundation Professor of History emeritus at Brown University, where he taught for thirty years. His research interests include political, legal, and social history, as well [...]

Princeton Professor Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr is quickly emerging becoming one of the countries’ top scholars. His book “Exodus! Religion, Race, and Nation in Early 19th Century Black America” received a great amount critical acclaim and is a must read. Below Glaude speaks at the “It Ain’t All Good In My Hood” Forum organized by [...]