Waverly Woodson, Jr. was a medic from Philadelphia who served in World War II with the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, the only Black combat unit to participate in D-Day. As one of the first Black soldiers to make it onto Omaha Beach in Normandy on June 6, 1944, Woodson ended up saving the lives of Read More…
By Ava Johnson The words you speak can create or destroy. Your mouth holds more power than you think. Ancient cultures, including the: African, Greek, and Roman cultures, believed that to utter a curse verbally was extremely powerful. Our ancestors felt that creation comes forth from sound and vibration. Their consensus was, “to say the thought out Read More…
Attorney Greg Francis, a champion for the rights of Black Americans, led and won the largest civil rights settlement in the history of civil justice in the U.S., demanding justice for 33,000 Black farmers. It was a settlement of $1.25 billion dollars. “The one thing I learned from that case is that all those farmers Read More…