Category: Educator

STAN BROWN

STAN   BROWN                                         “As an acting student and then later as a professional actor, I discovered that growing in my ability to give and receive love was essential to my growth and development as an …

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Carol Sutton

Carol Dickerson Sutton Actress “The Queen of New Orleans Theatre“   by DALE  RICARDO  SHIELDS Page 1 – 6   Born: December 3, 1944 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. Died:  December 10, 2020 (aged 76) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. Anacclaimed American actress of theater, film, and television, widely known as the “Queen of New Orleans theater”. …

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DUCHESS HARRIS, PhD, JD

MIRIAM (Duchess) HARRIS Legal scholar, and Champion of Black Women in Democracy  by DALE RICARDO SHIELDS Dr. Duchess Harris is an acclaimed American scholar, author, legal expert, and the DeWitt Wallace Professor of American Studies at Macalester College. She also serves as the Special Assistant to the Provost for Strategic Initiatives at the institution.  Dr. …

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John Hope Franklin

John  Hope  Franklin American historian, Educator, and Civil Rights Activist [1915-2009] by Dale Ricardo Shields   “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey;” ―    John Hope Franklin John Hope Franklin (January 2, 1915 …

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Yvonne Carter Williams

  Dr. Yvonne Carter Williams Hampton and Esther Boswell Distinguished University Professor of Black Studies. Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University; M.A., University of Connecticut; B.A., Pennsylvania State University.   By Dale Ricardo Shields   ~*****~ “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.” – Arthur Schopenhauer …

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