Our Time Press: I did not realize until that last interview we conducted with you over the summer that you are the graphic artist who created those revolutionary posters and messages for the December 12th Movement events. That’s amazing work. Impressive. Omowale: I was telling this young brother the other day about Sonny Carson, a […]Read More

Darren A. NicholsSpecial to the DetroitFree Press This day — Oct. 16, 1995 — will be etched in my soul forever because of the historic Million Man March.For me it began on an early Sunday morning, packing my Nissan Altima, heading to Washington, D.C.I recall three of us — me, my roommate Derek Williams, along […]Read More

Black Solidarity, Power, Leadership: Revolutionary Ideas“that Black People are able to do Things Themselves”Previously Concealed, Now Revealed Many voices were raised in the Black consciousness movements in the United States of the 1960’s and 1970’s and the ones most heard by the masses were the ones “on the ground” in the community. Such a voice […]Read More

Hon. Constance Baker Motley The last week of September in U.S. political history, most likely will be remembered for the debate between Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden, former Vice President of the U.S., and President Donald Trump at the 2020 First Presidential Debates in Cleveland, Ohio.For knowledgeable Americans, the week marked the 15th anniversary of […]Read More

By Lynette Holloway,  First Casualty of the American RevolutionCrispus Attucks: The former slave was the first casualty of the American Revolutionary War when he was killed during the Boston Massacre. In 1888 the Crispus Attucks monument was unveiled in the Boston Common. First Black MinutemanLemuel Haynes: He served as a minuteman during the American Revolutionary War, fighting […]Read More

Author, “The Organ Thieves” It’s been over 40 years since the controversial death of a Virginia man named Bruce Tucker. In 1968, the Black man sustained a head injury and went to Virginia’s top research hospital to be treated. Tucker slipped into a coma, his family was never contacted, and his heart ended up in […]Read More

Black Military Fought on Battlegrounds, Here and Over There They served this country, too: In every war fought by or within the United States, African Americans participated, including the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, the Civil War, the Spanish–American War, the World Wars, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf […]Read More

Summer of 2012, I interviewed Chadwick Boseman on the MacDonough Street “set” where important scenes were shot for the actor’s “42” feature film. Dodger great Jackie Robinson, the legend Boseman portrays in the film, lived at 526 in the 1940’s when he broke records and made history. Quite frankly, Jackie Robinson is in my genealogical […]Read More