When the invitation arrived, I simply could not believe my eyes! A handwritten note from the Queen of Soul, inviting me to join her for a...
The founders of Elm Grove Baptist Church were enslaved, but they were determined to worship the God they trusted through the cruelty and brutality that defined...
The summer of 1919 was an extraordinarily bloody period of racial violence in American history, so much so that black author and activist, James Weldon Johnson...
Let me ask a question. Does your life feel chaotic, unmanageable, out-of-control? I can relate if that’s the case. Some of us have lived too long...
In the midst of the Harvey Weinstein travesty, let’s not forget government stats show Black women are dying in record numbers from domestic violence. Shanikia Johnson....
The most famous graduate at the commencement celebration for Jennings High School in the St. Louis area touched hearts around the world three years ago when...
Police in Little Rock spent the early morning hours investigating a shooting that left 28 people injured at a downtown nightclub. As the details emerged, eyewitnesses...
America’s history is preserved by sharing the adventures of daring settlers who forged new lives for themselves and a new day for their country as they...
The graduates at Bowie State University remembered one of their own today as they received their college degrees amidst a tragedy triggered by racism. Another student,...
The Starbucks in the suburb where a police officer gunned down Michael Brown during the summer of 2014 is one of the most visible and celebrated...