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Bruce’s Beach descendants want restitution paid for forced eviction from Southern California resort
History has shown that the prosperity of blacks threatens some whites without basis. Just excelling at their work, school, and business has led some whites to agitate, go on rampages in black neighborhoods,...
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Madge Dorita Sinclair, the Jamaican teacher who made it big as Queen Aoleon and Simba’s mother
Although Madge Sinclair was born in Kingston, Jamaica, she shot to fame in America. Born Madge Dorita Walters on April 28, 1938, she worked as a teacher in Jamaica until she was 30. She was married to...
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The scary moment Nat King Cole collapsed seeing the remains of his mom for the last time
Love for a mother is profound. A mother is the shield, tower, inspiration, and for music icon Nat King Cole, his mother Perlina Adams Coles was his only music teacher who he hoped would become a classical...
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Marion Barry Jr., four-time DC mayor who was jailed over cocaine use and returned to win an election
The life and times of Marion Barry Jr., the four-time mayor of Washington, D.C., make for interesting reading. Here was a Mississippi sharecropper’s son who first took to education to elevate himself...
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Remembering Della Reese, the ‘Touched By an Angel’ TV star who started out as a singer at 6
Born Delloreese Patricia Early on July 6, 1931, in Detroit’s Black Bottom neighborhood to Nellie Mitchelle, a cook, and Richard Thaddeus Early, a steel worker and gambler, Della Reese as she came...
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Ever knew comic Dick Gregory ran for president in 1968 over the two party system and Vietnam?
For many, Dick Gregory was the ‘woke’ elder who gave insights into the atrocities of the America system against blacks. For others, he was a brilliant comic and civil rights activist. Another...
