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Frederick Douglass and Isaac Myers rival Frances Scott Key in their importance to American history. I describe Black organized labor during my April 6 tour with SEIU 1021

Brandishing his University of Florida championship ring from the men's basketball team, Dr. Harry Edwards presents the moral and intellectual case against the New Black Codes in this special episode of The Promised Land

Dr. Harry Edwards joins The Promised Land at the statue of John Carlos and Tommie Smith to respond to attacks on the victories he has won for Black Studies and academic excellence as we opened the 48th annual National Council for Black Studies. He describes anxious parents contacting him on where their students won't face persecution for reproductive rights and civil rights and advises athlete...

March to vote in 15 states -- Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia -- in honor of those who marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma and Crispus Attucks, the first to die for the United States and you can have the same impact as the first African-American voters in the 1860s

My re-enactment of Rev. Henry Highland Garnet's greatest speeches at 15th Street Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. including Let The Monster Perish (first speech by an African-American in U.S. Capitol); and Let Your Motto Be Resistance, Resistance, Resistance

We must lift up the voices of the 200 heroes who died during the New Orleans massacre to the U.S. Supreme Court as it hears the case from the Colorado Supreme Court invoking Section Three of the 14th Amendment. Our lack of knowledge of the most important provision of the Constitution is giving an opening to undo a century and half of progress. Join our Protecting 14th Amendment four-week sessions...

Sometimes the most prominent people can be invisible to the communities that spawned them. Amazingly, the superbly documented saga of Marguerite Annie Johnson has been obscured in a community which gave us Black Studies. But she left us a rich pathway to follow as we are Mapping Maya.

Sometimes I forget that February is a big month personally while implementing my career as a Black historian, but I don't have many birthdays left so it's double duty in 2024 and you get to join the joint celebration with the publisher's birthday discount on all our products.

Beginning Come to the Water, a seven week session on teaching California Black history with a specific focus on African-Americans and the arts with a Black history sea cruise from Pier 43 1/2 and continuing to explore the world of Sargent Johnson

The January Journal of Black Innovation features the 48 Air Force civil engineering battalions; Army regiments and Naval construction battalions which built 1,000 airfields, the Alaska Highway and seaports, a demonstration of how 5 million Black veterans have stepped up since 1770 for a country which rarely steps up for them and their families.

The most important book on the 14th Amendment is Citizenship for All: 150th anniversary of the 14th Amendment which presents the pivotal clause of the U.S. Constitution through the lens of the African-Americans whose civic participation inserted it into the nation's charter. The 14th Amendment will be in a starring role during 2024. We must understand it.

The capitulation of American higher education to donors and right wing wackos will spread across many arenas.

African-Americans know why they have the faith which is the seventh principle of Kwanzaa because Emancipation Day is a witness

His art solved the double consciousness dilemma by leaping over the barriers--a lesson we can all take to heed.

Roy L. Clay Sr. named his autobiography Unstoppable, as the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame member tells his life story. It is the spirit behind NIA, a determination to rebuild Black communities globally.

Cooperative economics is my lane to drive the goals of the 20th annual Journal of Black Innovation National Black Business Month by going way back

Without fangs, shells, venom or great speed, we humans have to work together, particularly when we African-Americans face the pressures of a society dedicated to our destruction. Central Brooklyn Economic Development Corp. is an example of Ujima, or collective work and responsibility, overcoming decades of neglect.

Self-determination starts with our health care. The African Burial Ground National Memorial shows that the secret burial societies were the first organizations among Africans in America so health care has always been our first concern, but until the last decade, we had little input in it. Changing that must be our paramount issue during 2024.

We must heed and learn the seven virtues before 2024, which will be for all the marbles

Dec. 6 is the most important date in African-American history. Learn why as historian John William Templeton explains why he sought out the resolutions of ratification for each state that approved the 13th Amendment in just nine months.

John William Templeton gives the context of the abolitionists who are behind the murals of the Room of the Dons in the Mark Hopkins Intercontinental Hotel as he marks the anniversary of the dedication of what was called the greatest work of public art since Michaelangelo

The deadliest mass casualty event of the 20th century has continuing implications for today as historian John William Templeton and political scientist Dr. James Lance Taylor previewed their discussion with participants Capt. Yulanda Williams and Dr. Amos C. Brown as they recalled the tragedy of Nov. 18, 1978 which took the lives of 300 mostly Black children, some with throats slit by their own mo...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams returned to his home neighborhood to applaud Brownsville for a 73 percent reduction in shootings and 17 percent reduction in crime and a multi-agency effort will work with Central Brooklyn Economic Development Corp. and our partners in the Brownsville Hub Cooperative to bring career and entrepreneurship services directly to residents. This is a great payoff for the $...

Get your exclusive signed copy of Our Roots Run Deep: the Black Experience in California, Vols. 1-4 in time for the anniversary of the unveiling of the Room of the Dons murals in the Mark Hopkins Hotel on Nob Hill in San Francisco. The larger moral is that our value is often hidden right in front of us in places where we wouldn't imagine.

From 1872 to 1876, Mississippi and South Carolina had African-American speakers of the state legislature, but never again since. Tuesday's elections meant Virginia's House of Delegates will have a Black speaker in the oldest legislature in the country, along with five other states. Additionally, five of the six largest cities will have Black mayors. How do we prevent a reversal?