by: Amanda Hughley In June of 2021, President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, officially making Juneteenth a federal holiday. At that point, many, especially non-African Americans, in the United States did not know what Juneteenth was or that it even existed. Although most states recognized the day, some even as an […]
Read MoreBy: Marques Rice, Esq. Imagine that I asked you to draw a picture of a tree. You find a pencil or pen and do your best to transform blank paper into your artistic representation of a tree. Big leaves, maybe some apples or a nest. Now, imagine that you show me the picture only to […]
Read MoreA few years back when I was auditing a class I was told the term Sankofa means go back and get it. It was further explained that we are to learn from this history and how to apply it today. Yesterday I got a new alert on my phone that read “The internet might be […]
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