The Martin Luther King, Jr

(Fri Oct 2nd, 2009, by christian abad)

When you sit back and take in the phenomenal achievements of black history, it is natural to be moved to admiration by some of the great figures of black history including Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver and many more. But one name sta...

The Harlem Revitalization

(Fri Oct 2nd, 2009, by christian abad)

Sometimes when we think of legionary outlaws who gave their life efforts to help a downtrodden and oppressed people, figures like Robin Hood or some other dashing male hero springs to mind. In black history, we have just such a character but this cha...

Who's Rosa Parks?

(Fri Oct 2nd, 2009, by christian abad)

In any great movement which effects great change in a nation or a people, there is something called a watershed moment. A watershed moment is that one signature event that triggered the onslaught of great and historic change. In American history, tha...

Ali and Jordon

(Fri Oct 2nd, 2009, by christian abad)

Throughout black history, great black athletes have served as role models to America's youth, in a way that may not have been possible for others leaders. And to be sure, some of these great heroes of athletics have become virtually godlike to all sp...

Leader George Washington Carver

(Fri Oct 2nd, 2009, by christian abad)

There is leadership that talks and there is leadership that works and in the hall of fame of great black leaders over the decades, George Washington Carver was a leader that worked. His leadership was not the kind that tried to capture publicity or m...

Thirteenth Alteration

(Fri Oct 2nd, 2009, by christian abad)

Looking back on it now, it's almost amazing to any modern American that we ever needed something like The Thirteenth Amendment. The very fact that the United States government had to take this step to outlaw slavery in this country once and for all t...

The Thurgood Marshall

(Fri Oct 2nd, 2009, by christian abad)

In the long history of uphill struggle for blacks in America, there are many notable firsts. In addition black history is populated with some truly notable black heroes who made significant contributions to the prosperity of African Americans and the...

The Rainbow Alliance

(Fri Oct 2nd, 2009, by christian abad)

The struggle for freedom and equality for African Americans is one that is passed down from generation to generation and from one era of black leadership to the next. Throughout history, the African American leadership has had many outstanding men an...

The Halls of Supremacy

(Fri Oct 2nd, 2009, by christian abad)

Black history has been a progressive climb from without the lowest echelons of society during slavery to the highest. When you think of black history, we often think of the civil rights movement, of John Brown's violent protests, of the Underground R...

Brown Against the Board of Education

(Fri Oct 2nd, 2009, by christian abad)

In 1951, thirteen families in the small community of Topeka, Kansas got together to do something about an unjust situation. The board of education of their community was allowing racial segregation in the school system based on an out of date 1879 la...