Tuesday, February 22, 2011 10:33am
Civil Rights Activist – Julian Bond, past chairman of the NAACP Board of Directors
While coming of age in Miami-Dade, FL, I became an active participant in the Miami-Dade Youth Council of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).   I served as president of the number one youth council in the nation and a member of the executive board of the Collegiate Chapter at Morehouse College.  [...]

Monday, February 21, 2011 6:14pm
Celebrating Black Womanhood!
On this day in 1933 Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known by her stage name of Nina Simone, was born in Tryon, North Carolina. Simone was a singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist. She has been widely associated with the genre of Jazz music. She studied at Julliard School of Music and some of [...]

Tuesday, February 15, 2011 9:25am
Dear Old’ Morehouse College
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have opened and closed over the years largely because of the challenging environment under which they almost universally exist — a lack of adequate funding, general lack of support from state legislatures in the case of public HBCUs, and an overall lack of respect for their unique mission on [...]