Black and Education

We have to examine our past to determine the impact of current drug policy in order to ensure that these results don't just happen again--while we stand by and watch.  Since the 1980s no single issue has struck at the heart of the struggles of Black America quite like the "War on Drugs" has.  Let me first state that the majority of black, white and Hispanic people in America do not use illicit dru...

Garrett Morgan was born around 1877 in Paris, Kentucky.  He did not receive a formal education beyond a several-year period of time when he was living with his parents.  He later hired a tutor, for himself, after he left his parents' home.  

In September of 1900 Ida B. Wells stopped the project she was working on to report on the outrageous actions that took place in New Orleans in July of that year.  Robert Charles was an African-American man who had an encounter with police, while sitting on the steps of a building with his friend, one night.  In that encounter shots were fired and Charles wounded one of the police officers.  Over t...

One of the most famous challenges to slavery took place at the home of an African-American man named, William Parker.  On September 11, 1851, Edward Gorsuch showed up at Parker’s home.  Gorsuch was seeking several escaped men whom he believed were being sheltered at Parker’s house.