Kuumba (creativity): to do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it. Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein allegedly said, […]
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Category: Commemoration
Holidays, Celebrations, Special Events and In Memoriam
What’s in a Name, N–ger?
I’m always amazed when black people say the N-word is a term of endearment or familiarity -yet the conventional spelling is rarely used to indicate this ‘truth’. Same with this painting that hangs in Smithsonian’s […]
Ahh, It’s Bootsy, Baby | Happy Black Music Month
Bootsy Collins Exhibit Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Washington, DC (May 2017) “This nearly exact replica of the Mothership was designed by George Clinton and Jules Fisher was used during […]
Home Going: Remembering Legends
The sisters of my mother’s father and my mother’s mother both passed away this month within weeks of each other. Interestingly, on that ominous night of her passing, my grand-aunt told her daughter that she had […]
What the ‘First Black Woman’ Librarian of Congress Means
Carla Hayden, Ph.D., 14th Librarian of Congress, is the first person other than an Anglo man to hold the post in 214 years. Source: What the ‘First Black Woman’ Librarian of Congress Means
