A small one – room log cabin – the states first school for black students – seemed destined for failure under Florida’s segregation movement in the years after it opened in 1868. Though President Abraham Lincoln had freed slaves at the end of the Civil War, white Florida Lawmakers fought to deny black children a Read More…
Macau is Home to a Cuisine found nowhere else on Earth. In this gambling mecca on the southern coast of China, the food is a singular mash-up of Portuguese and Chinese influences. It appeared at first that I had arrived in Macau by time machine. The hotel’s name, Morpheus, seemed picked to evoke either Greek Read More…
Black NASCAR Driver Wendell O. Scott Wendell Scott & sons Frank Scott (Left),Wendell Scott Jr. (R) Wendell Scott, the only black driver in NASCAR for virtually all of his career, probably earned more respect than he did money. His career was a constant struggle with low budgets. The Danville, VA native started racing in 1947. Read More…