From the book jacket of Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights: “Bob Moses went to Mississippi in 1961, a young man, drawn by the sit-ins. By 1964, his work […]
On the first day of my term of office, my administration will immediately pursue the following six measures to clean up the corruption and special interest collusion in Washington, DC: […]
Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press. Just to pick up on what Hugh Laurie said. You and all of us in this room, really, belong to the most vilified segments […]
Sometimes I want to scream and this is one of them. How many of you want to get rid of the Electoral College because it trumps (pun not deliberate) the […]
I think it is a good time to do a quick review of women’s history as it relates to the right to vote. Modern women/girls have the freedom to come […]
What would happen if several black men went to a gun store to buy an AR-15 because they wanted to protect themselves from the police? What would happen if several […]
Earlier this year Dr. Stephanie Evans of Clark Atlanta University invited me to contribute a chapter to her collection of stories about African American women accompanied by recipes that inspired […]
As far back as the 19th century, when what had been part of Mexico became part of the U.S., people of Mexican heritage had been considered “white” according […]
Our nation did not want black pilots to go to war and they didn’t want to see black pilots come from war even if they had won many awards.
While on the Solano Community College Civil Rights Travel Course we went to Moton Field, one of the two places black pilots were trained to fly. It is just outside […]
