Frank Messiah, labor leader and longtime Buffalo NAACP president and state vice president, educator Dr. Shirley Harrington and Buffalo and Erie County librarian Melvin Watkins soon came on board and brought their unique talents and networks. We comprised the original Board of Directors and sometime ...
[1]Karsonya Wise Whitehead (todaywithdrkaye@gmail.com; Twitter:@kayewhitehead) is the #blackmommyactivist and an associate professor of communication and African and African American studies at Loyola University Maryland. She is the host of “Today With Dr. Kaye” on WEAA 88.9 FM and the aut...
It was equally important that experience of self-government had taught colonial leaders how to get things done. When the Continental Congress met in 1774, members did not have to debate procedure (except on voting); they already knew it. Finally, the Congress’s authority was rooted in ...