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 …
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 …
_____________________________________JUNETEENTH DALE RICARDO SHIELDS Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now …
Martin Luther King Jr. – A KING SALUTE The King Philosophy TRIPLE EVILS The Triple Evils of POVERTY, RACISM, and MILITARISM are forms of violence that exist in a vicious cycle. They are interrelated, all-inclusive, and stand as barriers to our living in the Beloved Community. When we work to remedy one evil, we …
