VIA:  EncyclopediaOfChicago.Org Oscar DePriest was born in Florence, Alabama, to ex-slaves. He arrived in Chicago in 1889. DePriest worked as a painter and decorator, reportedly on occasion passing for white to get a job. He developed his own contracting business and began participating in community affairs. He began his political career as a precinct secretary, […]

  Historian, educator, author, publisher and founder of  Black History Month

VIA: 9news.com Third-grader Amirikis Smith thought being mentioned in Obama’s speech was ‘amazing.’ “It lives on,” the president said, “in the 8-year-old boy in Louisiana, who just sent me his allowance and asked if I would give it the people of Haiti.”

The president did not identify the young man by name, but on Thursday the […]

VIA:  Answers.Com Identical twin brothers Albert and Allen Hughes became celebrities when they completed their first feature-length movie, Menace II Society. Their age when the film was released in May of 1993–they had just turned 21–put them in the company of celebrated young black directors like John Singleton, who was 23 in 1991 when Boyz […]

  Bishop L. Spenser Smith, author of Getting Ready for Love discusses how to recover from disappointment in relationships.

The Civil Rights Movement has always fascinated me. I watched the documentary “Eyes on the Prize.” I read books about Martin Luther King Jr., FBI surveillance of black leaders and anything related to the struggle. As an intern at the Montgomery Advertiser I drove down the streets where protesters marched. I peered at the church […]