Congrats AGAIN...

Job well done Forrest and Jennifer...Y'ALL MADE HISTORY!!

Upgrade indeed....

even though he's getting more annoying by each ego-centric proclamation...this is Kanye's woman.....wonder what she thinks about George Bush and Black People....hmmmmm

Black History Month Quote(s) of the day...

One of our greatest Leaders...I could just give ONE quote because he had so many GREAT quotes...check em out below:

“Up, up, you mighty race!/ You can accomplish/ what you will.”

“I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.”

“The whole world is run on bluff”

“Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.”

“Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.”

“God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.”

“The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness”

Marcus Garvey

Black Internationalist Leader, Publisher, Enterpreneur, Journalist and Great Thinker....

Black History Quote of the Day...

'To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. . . . On the box is a label, not of my own choosing'

Stephen Carter

Writer

Black History Quote of the day....

As a Poet and Writer I can soooooooo feel June on this quote:


'As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new. . . . But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America.'

June Jordan

Writer-Poet

Black History Quote of the Day....

'Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. '

Malcolm X,

Virginia Lawmakers Pass Slavery Apology....Well ((Maybe)) It's A Start...

Last month, Delegate Frank D. Hargrove said that "black citizens should get over" slavery. The 80-year-old Republican voted for the "symbolic measure."

By LARRY O'DELL
AP
RICHMOND, Va. (Feb. 24) - Meeting on the grounds of the former Confederate Capitol, the Virginia General Assembly voted unanimously Saturday to express "profound regret" for the state's role in slavery.

Sponsors of the resolution say they know of no other state that has apologized for slavery, although Missouri lawmakers are considering such a measure. The resolution does not carry the weight of law but sends an important symbolic message, supporters said.

"This session will be remembered for a lot of things, but 20 years hence I suspect one of those things will be the fact that we came together and passed this resolution," said Delegate A. Donald McEachin, a Democrat who sponsored it in the House of Delegates. The resolution passed the House 96-0 and cleared the 40-member Senate on a unanimous voice vote. It does not require Gov. Timothy M. Kaine's approval. The measure also expressed regret for "the exploitation of Native Americans." The resolution was introduced as Virginia begins its celebration of the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, where the first Africans arrived in 1619. Richmond, home to a popular boulevard lined with statues of Confederate heroes, later became another point of arrival for Africans and a slave-trade hub.

The resolution says government-sanctioned slavery "ranks as the most horrendous of all depredations of human rights and violations of our founding ideals in our nation's history, and the abolition of slavery was followed by systematic discrimination, enforced segregation, and other insidious institutions and practices toward Americans of African descent that were rooted in racism, racial bias, and racial misunderstanding." In Virginia, black voter turnout was suppressed with a poll tax and literacy tests before those practices were struck down by federal courts, and state leaders responded to federally ordered school desegregation with a "Massive Resistance" movement in the 1950s and early '60s. Some communities created exclusive whites-only schools.

The apology is the latest in a series of strides Virginia has made in overcoming its segregationist past. Virginia was the first state to elect a black governor - L. Douglas Wilder in 1989 - and the Legislature took a step toward atoning for Massive Resistance in 2004 by creating a scholarship fund for blacks whose schools were shut down between 1954 and 1964. Among those voting for the measure was Delegate Frank D. Hargrove, an 80-year-old Republican who infuriated black leaders last month by saying "black citizens should get over" slavery.

After enduring a barrage of criticism, Hargrove successfully co-sponsored a resolution calling on Virginia to celebrate "Juneteenth," a holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.

Black History Quote of the day...

'Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week'...

Alice Walker

Writer

Black History Quote Of The Day...

Love this sista and this quote sums up MY thoughts EXACTLY:

'Of course I’m a black writer. . . . I’m not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren’t marginal anymore. We have to acknowledge that the thing we call “literature” is more pluralistic now, just as society ought to be. The melting pot never worked. We ought to be able to accept on equal terms everybody from the Hasidim to Walter Lippmann, from the Rastafarians to Ralph Bunche. '

Toni Morrison

Writer

Black History Quote of the Day...

'People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned. '

James Baldwin

Writer

Black History Quote of the Day....

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.

W.E.B. Dubois

Black History Quote of the Day..

For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.
I never stop to plan. I take things step by step.
The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood. '

Mary McLEOUD Bethune

Educator

Black History Quote of the day

'Common sense is the least most common thing'...

My DAD...

Black History Quote of The Day...

'A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck'

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.,

U.S. Congressman, Minister

"Keep the Faith, Baby!", 1967

Black History Quote Of The Day...

"You must be willing to give total unconditional love to everyone, under all circumstances. That means being willing to be totally responsible for what you do and how you do it."

Iyanla Vanzant

Author, Life Coach

Black History Quote of the day...

'I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it." '

Katherine Dunham

Dancer, Choreographer, and Anthropologist

Lest We Forget...

'Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. '
-- Booker T. Washington

Black History Quote of the day...

We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

Carter Woodson on founding Negro History Week, 1926

Black History Quote of the DAY...

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.

Maya Angelou

"Still I rise," And Still I Rise (1978)