Baseball’s recognized home run king and an African American hero, Henry ‘Hank’ Aaron, has died at the age of 86. Aaron, who broke Babe Ruth’s all-time home run record on April 8, 1974, was not just a baseball legend but…
With uniquely American hypocrisy, the Trump Treasury Department has pushed back the 2016 plan to put escaped slave and Underground Railroad heroine Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. Tubman would be the first African American woman featured on U.S. currency.…
I was fortunate to attend a celebration, ‘Kwame Leo Lillard Day,’ at First Community Church (pastored by Elder Glen V. Clay) acknowledging and honoring Kwame Leo Lillard, a true hero in my eyes. All too often, we give accolades and…
