Freddie Jackson, R&B icon, now 66, ‘counts the moments not the numbers’ By D. Kevin McNeir In 1979, President Jimmy Carter declared that June would be Black Music Month – setting aside a month to recognize the incredible influence that Black music has had on the U.S. and the world. Now more than four decades […]
By D. Kevin McNeir Just over a year ago (April 2022), The Washington Informer, in a news report written in collaboration with Word in Black, an initiative of 10 of the nation’s leading Black publishers that frames narrative and fosters solutions for racial inequities in America, examined how D.C. Public School (DCPS) librarians were responding […]
Thurgood Marshall’s Hard Work Led to the End of Legalized Racial Segregation in Schools But Standardized Tests Have Surreptitiously Succeeded in Keeping Black Students Back By D. Kevin McNeir @mcneirdk On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. […]
WASHINGTON, DC (July 19, 2020) – Today, Thomasina W. Yearwood, President and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall Center Trust, Inc. (TMCT), offers her thoughts regarding the death of civil rights icon, Rep. John Lewis. “As condolences continue to pour in, I, too, confess that my heart remains heavy as our community, nation and the […]
WASHINGTON, DC (July 19, 2020) – Today, Thomasina W. Yearwood, President and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall Center Trust, Inc. (TMCT), offers her thoughts regarding the death of civil rights warrior, the Rev. C.T. Vivian. “Today, I join millions of others from across the nation and the world in mourning the loss of an […]
Film Screening, Panel Focus on Music and Activism of Mavis Staples By Sam P.K. Collins Founder and Host of AllEyesOnDC.com @SamPKCollinsmensclub24 Photo: Mavis Staples (Courtesy) “You can’t have a movement without music!” Isisara Bey, executive producer of the annual March on Washington Film Festival told an audience of more than 100 music aficionados who gathered in […]
Community Members Celebrate Kwame Ture’s 75th Birthday By Sam P.K. Collins Founder and Host of AllEyesOnDC.com @SamPKCollinsКак составить семантическое ядро для сайта By the end of his life, Kwame Ture cemented a legacy as a master organizer and staunch Pan-Africanist. As a leader of the All African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP), he helped internationalize the […]
PHOTO: Actor and award-winning humanitarian Jesse Williams/ Courtesy КАК Я НАШЕЛ СВОЙ БИЗНЕС У СЕБЯ ДОМА By now, most, if not all of the African world has watched or heard about Jesse Williams’ five-minute oratorical masterpiece at the BET Awards earlier this week. Upon accepting the 2016 BET Humanitarian Award, Williams, a Black actor who rarely minces […]
Community College Preparatory Academy, the only adult charter school in the United States, gives adults of all ages living east of the Anacostia River an opportunity to attain their high school diploma and prepare for college-level work see here. Connie Spinner, founding executive director, launched the program after seeing students struggle at the University of […]
#OurLivesMatter: One Year Later By Sam P.K. Collins Founder and Host of AllEyesOnDC.com @SamPKCollinskahovka-service.ru If there’s any doubt that District youth want to quell violence in their community and boost civic engagement among their peers, young people at a local recreation center are slowly but surely laying those concerns to rest, all the while sharpening […]