Posts Tagged ‘Black History’

P.U.R.G.E. EXPANDING MISSION TO ELIMINATE GUN-VIOLENCE

P.U.R.G.E. EXPANDING MISSION TO ELIMINATE GUN-VIOLENCE

2010 Speak-Out Campaign Launched from Calvary Fellowship AME Church Rest-in-peace elegies and images embellish exterior  walls of buildings throughout New York City.  To some these are fitting work-of-art memorials to lives once lived. But to so many others, like members of the anti-violence organization PURGE, founded in 1993 by community activist and child advocate...

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STORY OF SAM COOK REACHES FAR BEYOND MUSIC BOUNDARIES

During the early 1960′s, he .. . encouraged Black people to support Black Press. . read voraciously from early childhood and believed that reading enlarged the world. . was a great student of  Black History, inspired by John Hope Franklin’s From Slavery to Freedom. And the works of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes....

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