By: Lawrence WarePosted: June 20, 2016 I was an inquisitive child. My grandmother called me nosy, but I like to think I had an insatiable thirst for knowledge. I would often ask questions that were answered with an, “It’s none of your business.” “Why did he never marry?” “It’s none
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Taryn Finley Black Voices Associate Editor, The Huffington Post Poet Clint Smith III takes a critical look at the Founding Fathers’ role in oppressing black people in his latest poem entitled “History Reconsidered.” His piece served as a letter to five of the United States presidents who owned slaves, George Washington,
Continue readingThe National Black Church Initiative is working with the Smithsonian Institute to help preserve and protect the history of the black church. This project will seek to raise funds to preserve the history of First African Baptist Church of Savannah, Georgia. This is our first project. Every year we will
Continue readingThis exhibition showcases more than forty color photographs by trailblazing African American artist Gordon Parks, many on view for the first time. Created for an influential 1950s Life magazine article, these photographs offer a powerful look at the daily life and struggles of a multi-generational family living in segregated Alabama.
Continue readingPosted: 4:37 p.m. Monday, July 28, 2014 By Steve Visser The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The wrecking crew came again Monday to flatten another church to make way for a new Atlanta Falcons stadium with a retractable roof. Workmen began demolishing Friendship Baptist Church three months after they had torn down Mount
Continue readingEducator, philosopher and theologian John Wesley Edward Bowen preached for social equality fifty years before the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. He supported black intellectualism and urged African Americans to develop self worth even in the face of white oppression. John Wesley Edward Bowen was born to Edward and Rose Bowen
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