The Houston Chronicle shows architectural plans showing how history thought Houston would look like. There are plans drawn from 1928 demonstrating the final product…
Sunday’s Academy Awards was championed by many for its diversity. The program had big wins for people of color. Quite a few also presented awards.…
via: blackchristiannews CBS News legend Mike Wallace, the 60 Minutes’ pit-bull reporter whose probing, brazen style made his name synonymous with the tough interview – a style he practically invented for television more than half a century ago – died last night, CBS News reported on Sunday. “He was 93 and passed peacefully […]
via: cnn.com Grand Rapids, Michigan (CNN) — On November 8, 1965, 48 American soldiers lost their lives during “Operation Hump” after the 400 men of the 173 Airborne Brigade were ambushed by roughly 1,200 Viet Cong fighters. I did not learn about this battle from a history book or teacher in school, but rather a […]
via: cnn.com Kennedy Space Center, Florida (CNN) — Soaring across the predawn haze, the space shuttle Atlantis glided back to Earth early Thursday — capping a 30-year program that saw hundreds of astronauts go into space.
Via: defendernetwork.com The National Museum of African American History and Culture has decided to collect items from Soul Train, the “hippest trip in America.” The popular television show was responsible for breaking many artists and giving them the platform to perform and be heard for 37 years. The Jackson 5, James Brown, The O’Jays, Stevie […]
A sweeping, high-profile, and ambitious musical film, ‘The Underground Railroad’ blends two powerful, redemptive stories into the background of Gospel/blues songs. The first story tells about a slave, Samuel Woodward, who escapes with his family to Canada. On their heels, is an obsessed slave hunter, JD Plimpton, who has never lost a slave. Along the […]
Dear saints, we all know that when we get to Heaven the people who will be in front getting the rewards are those faithful, behind-the-scenes people in the body of Christ who clean the bathrooms, work in the nursery, do the ushering, and cook the food,
Via: defendernetwork.com There was a time when Houston’s African-American high school graduates had limited opportunities when it came time to advancing to the collegiate academic and athletic levels.
On Good Friday in 1963, 53 blacks, led by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., marched into downtown Birmingham to protest the existing segregation laws. All were arrested.
