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“The children of America are not rebelling for no reason. They are not hippies for no reason at all. We don’t have what we have on Sunset Blvd. for no reason. They are rebelling against something. There are so many things burning the people of this country, particularly mothers. They feel they are going to raise sons — and I know what it’s like, and you have children of your own, Mrs. Johnson, we raise children and send them to war.”
Eartha Kitt in a controversial address about the Vietnam War to President Lyndon Johnson, 1968
Clarence “Skip” Ellis was the first African-American to earn a PhD in Computer Science. He helped develop the concept of clicking icons which lead to the development of user friendly operating systems such as Windows or Mac.
Most computer users, even highly proficient users, would not be able to operate their computer without this simple concept. Thank you, sir!Learn more about Dr. Ellis here. (via University of Buffalo)
HELL YEAAAAH
Question Bridge: Black Males is a transmedia art project that seeks to represent and redefine Black male identity in America. Through video mediated question and answer exchange, diverse members of this “demographic” bridge economic, political, geographic, and generational divisions.
(via QUESTION BRIDGE)
“Rosa Parks was arrested because she refused to give up her bus seat for a white man. Public buses were segregated then, reserving seats in the front and middle of the vehicles only for whites.
The African American community in Montgomery was able to respond so quickly to the arrest of Rosa Parks because it was written of in the newspaper. The newspapers were then delivered across the country, allowing all people to read her story. READ MORE
Happy Birthday Rosa Parks!
In the summer of 1865, a former slave by the name of Jourdan Anderson sent a letter to his former master. And 147 years later, the document reads as richly as it must have back then.
The roughly 800-word letter, which has resurfaced via various blogs, websites, Twitter and Facebook, is a response to a missive from Colonel P.H. Anderson, Jourdan’s former master back in Big Spring, Tennessee. Apparently, Col. Anderson had written Jourdan asking him to come on back to the big house to work.
In a tone that could be described either as “impressively measured” or “the deadest of deadpan comedy,” the former slave, in the most genteel manner, basically tells the old slave master to kiss his rear end. He laments his being shot at by Col. Anderson when he fled slavery, the mistreatment of his children and that there “was never pay-day for the Negroes any more than for the horses and cows.” READ THE LETTER
This is an amazingly well written letter!
