In my world, a woman was the most powerful thing that I knew. Still is. A woman made the money in my house; a woman made my food. A woman beat my ass when I wasn't a good kid. Women were behind a lot of what spurred South Africa toward democracy. —Trevor Noah 159 What is ...
Now, the black man here was so-called free by [Abe] Lincoln 100 years ago. The black man in America has an - has a purchasing power of 20 billion dollars. Now, and he's educated. —Malcolm X 4 And I am convinced that a single focus on preserving the purchasing power of the dolla...
What were Frederick Douglass' greatest achievements? What was Medgar Evers' career? What is the black power philosophy of Malcolm X? What was Malcolm X famous for? What was Martin Luther King's role Civil Rights Movement? What did MLK do for a living? What did Nelson Mandela do in the ...
“It was great, and there’s a lot of changes and a lot of new stuff. There was a whole feeling of kind of ‘rebirth’ and there’s an exciting group of actors. You know, Ezra Miller and Jason Momoa and guys like that, so much fun, and Gal Gadot who’s great and Henry Cavill...
As Douglass' goal, even in the years before the Civil War, had been not the abolition of slavery per se but the achievement of equal civic status for all Americans, he continued to write and speak about these issues even after the South was forced to emancipate its slaves. Douglass wa...
October 17, 2022Malcolm Lowry's Under the VolcanoLowry's great romp about an alcoholic British consul in a small Mexican town was published in 1947. The story is set on All Souls' Day--or the Day of the Dead--on November 2, 1938 in Quauhnahuac, Mexico. ...
Tefertiller’s great achievement is to tell what happened after. The Earps were charged with murder. They were arraigned in a hearing to determine if a trial should take place. The Earps’ lawyers were brilliant, getting Ike Clanton to look look the fool he was and to decimate his testimo...
I’m just gonna go right out there and say it: Yik Yak is the greatest social media platform since Facebook. Fuck twitter. Say it with me now, FUCK twitter. Twitter’s just a bunch of people I thought I was interested in demonstrating to me that I was wrong about that. LinkedIn can...
Considered to be one of the greatest jazz vocalists of the ’30s and into the late ’50s, “Lady Day” captivated sold-out theaters with her raspy renditions of “All of Me” and “Ain’t Nobody’s Business.” It was the track titled, “Strange Fruit,” however, that haunted the cou...
Building on this invitation, and before students from each college met, there was a mutual investment in intensive skills-building, so that their eventual meeting would be profoundly different from what they’ve grown used to in discourse and politics. ...