Dr. Lois Benjamin, author of the new book The Black Elite: Still Facing the Color Line in the 21st Century, masterfully presents a myriad of changes underlying the value shift of the post-Civil Rights generations, such as desegregation of social institutions; changes in the institutional, organizational affiliations and networks of Black communities and the interconnectedness of our global society.
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Frederick Douglass, the renowned orator, statesman, and abolitionist and a prominent leader in a colony of England, now known as the United States of America, moved our new nation, led by so-called “white” people who...
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Imagine being Black in the 1700s and becoming a self-taught surveyor who played a pivotal role in planning the layout of our nation’s capital. In 1753, at the age of 22, Banneker constructed a striking wooden clo...
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GREAT MEN OF COLOR: J. A. Rogers spent the majority of his lifetime pioneering the field of Black studies with his exhaustive research on the major names in Black history whose contributions or even very existence h...
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The great debate between Black psychiatrist Dr. Frances Welsing and Nobel Prize winner Dr. William Shockley. Back in the 1970s, a man named Dr. William Shockley embarked upon the mission of proving to the world that ...
