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MLK Day/The Inauguration By Patricia SpearsJones

Posted on January 23, 2013 by | Leave a comment

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What a great day for our nation and a difficult day for the world. The crisis in North Africa; the war in Mali, snows in Paris and not much of anything in New York. Continue reading →

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Kress 5-10-25 Cent store,125th Street in Harlem

Posted on June 10, 2012 by | Leave a comment

On the afternoon of March 19, 1935, Lino Rivera, a 16-year-old Puerto Rican youth, was observed stealing a ten-cent pocket knife from the E. H. Kress 5-10-25 cent store designed by architect Seymour Burrell on 125th street in New York’s Harlem Continue reading →

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HW Black History Month: Langston Hughes

Posted on February 26, 2010 by | 7 Comments

Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, the second child of school teacher Carrie (Caroline) Mercer Langston and her husband James Nathaniel Hughes (1871-1934). Both parents were mixed-race, and Langston Hughes was of African American, European American and Native American descent. He grew up in a series of Midwestern small towns. Both his paternal great-grandmothers were African American, and both his paternal great-grandfathers were white: one of Scottish and one of Jewish descent. Continue reading →

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HW Black History Month: Malcolm X

Posted on February 19, 2010 by | 1 Comment

Malcolm X (pronounced /ˈmælkəm ˈɛks/) (born Malcolm Little; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965), also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Arabic: الحاجّ مالك الشباز‎), was an African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist.

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HW’s Black History Month

Posted on February 4, 2009 by | 1 Comment

king_johnson“In conjunction with the civil rights movement, Johnson overcame southern resistance and convinced Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed most forms of racial segregation. Johnson signed it into law on July 2, 1964.

Legend has it that, as he put down his pen, Johnson told an aide, “We have lost the South for a generation,” anticipating accoming backlash from Southern whites against Johnson’s Democratic Party. Continue reading →

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