Ever since I first learned how, I’ve loved to read. I read nearly anything and everything that crosses my path, from the back of a cereal box to weighty academic publications (if I can get through them!) If I had to pick a favorite genre, it would be autobiographies of famous people, but by no […]
1. Pharrell Williams: Rapper and music producer. He was nominated for an Academy Award this year for the song “Happy” for the film Despicable Me 2. 2. Judge Greg Mathis: Retired Michigan 36th District Court judge and syndicated television show arbiter, famous for his reality show, Judge Mathis. 3. Colin Powell: Politician, Four-star General who […]
When Booker T. Washington stepped to the podium at the Atlanta Exposition in 1895 to give a speech on race relations, two things happened. First, many fellow Black Americans, including W.E.B. Du Bois, derided his speech as “The Atlanta Compromise,” because Washington called the agitation for social equality “the extremest folly,” advocating instead slow, steady, […]
