Black History Month Series Day 2 It’s not a lifetime ago My father is older than this, so are my grandparents, aunts, uncles and many cousins, but 57 years ago four young Black men, college students at North Carolina A&T College, started the Woolworth Sit-In. On February 1, 1960 Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin […]
When we were stolen, there was no concern about where we were from, what business we owned, what our talents were, what languages we spoke, or even our names. When we arrived on this stolen land as stolen people, we were never given our history back and to this day all members of the Black […]
We went out into the streets of Seattle to ask Black people, “What is one word that describes being Black in America?” I wasn’t expecting any specific type of answers. Some surprised me as Black people responded: King, Beautiful and even Hebrew. The wide variety of answers alone illustrated the complexity of the Black experience […]