Creative Activism (In Honor of Black History Month) February 19, 2015§3 Comments Last spring, I took my then three year old daughter shopping for shoes. It was a rainy Saturday, we had just come from her first early morning soccer practice (to which she had worn rain boots), and with...
Writing a Black History Month paper is an excellent opportunity to delve deeper into the rich history of African Americans and to celebrate their contributions. However, crafting a stellar paper that captures the essence of the topic requires some planning and preparation. Here are some tips and t...
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On 16thJune 1944, fourteen year old George Stinney was executed for the murder of two young girls. The youngest person executed in US in modern history, George was too small to fit into the electric chair. A bible was stacked onto the seat, so the electrodes could reach his head. Once ...
Black History Month, I hold fast to the hope that one day we will not need a designated month to remind people of who we are but that people will recognize that Black History is American History. And as such, it should be regularly taught in the schools, around the dinner tables, on ...
. After constructing such a thing, it was easy to get things like the change in sales from month to month in the hardware department without writing code. OLAP was and is powerful. It assigned attributes to data in hierarchies, with unchanging programs that made it easy to navigate around....
The pop-up shop is hers until the beginning of January, so she has one month to make it work. She moved to Edinburgh from the coastal town of Prestwick. After opening her shop, she becomes friends with knitting shop owner Agnes, and Matt who owns the mountaineering clothing shop. Jeff ...
Black History Month and Focus Time Time can get away from me, which is why it’s good for me to be deliberate about what I’m choosing to read. One day tends to blend into the next and the next into the next until a year has passed. So Black History Month or Women’s H...
The time has come for Black political leaders, and Democrats more broadly, to confront this entrenched hostility toward immigrants. American history reveals a pattern of discrimination and exclusion, one that often reemerges when politically expedient. For too long, Black leaders have been shaped by...
February is Black History Month and has a long history dating back to 1925when historian Carter G. Woodsonfounded, at the time, a week-long event celebrating the birthdays of two predominant figures in African American history: Abraham Lincoln and Federick Douglas. I...