Basketball Legend and Civil Rights Champion: A Tribute to Bill Russell
“Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.” ~ Bill Russell President Obama getting a hug from Bill Russell....
View ArticleDC’s Favorite Centenarian: A Tribute to Virginia McLaurin
“I thought I would never live to get in the White House” ~ Virginia McLaurin Barack Obama and Michelle Obama Participate in a Photo Line with 106-Year-Old Virginia McLaurin in the Blue Room (NAID...
View ArticleThe Immaculate Reception: A Tribute to Franco Harris
“And so, it's not a thing of how many carries, but were you effective when you did carry.” Franco Harris On December 20, 2022, Pro Football Hall of Famer Franco Harris passed away at the age of 72...
View Article“The Beautiful Game:” Tribute to Pele
“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” ~ Pelé On December 29, 2022, Brazilian futbol great...
View ArticleFighter for Human Rights: Tribute to Activist Randall Robinson
“People need their history like they need air and food.” ~ Randall Robinson On March 24, 2023, Randall Robinson passed away at the age of 81, on a small island in St. Kitts. He was a civil rights...
View ArticleCreating an Archives with Color: Dr. Harold T. Pinkett and Diversity Efforts...
Today's post was written by Tina L. Ligon, Supervisory Archivist for Augmented Processing and Navy Reference at the National Archives at College “I am pleased to have introduced ‘affirmative action’...
View ArticleThe King of Calypso: Tribute to Harry Belafonte
“I am who I am despite what America has put before me. I am who I am despite the obstacles that we have all faced based upon race and based upon social and spiritual humiliation.” ~Harry Belafonte On...
View Article“To the Hip Hop and You don’t Stop”: A Tribute for the 50th Anniversary of...
Cover photo: A Great Day in Hip Hop, Harlem, New York, by Gordon Parks, 1998 This year, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the birth of Hip Hop. Rap, a genre of popular music rooted in funk, disco,...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Langston Hughes!
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over—...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Frederick Douglass!
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither...
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