By Abayomi Azikiwe On January 16 in the United States, the 94th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will be commemorated as a federal holiday. Since 1986, the third Monday of January has been […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 11, 2022 Contact: Clennon L. King AugustineMonica MediaWorks 207.450.3585 clennon@augustinemonica.com Albany, Georgia….Rev. Charles Melvin Sherrod, whose grassroots organizing of unregistered Black voters sent shock waves through the segregated South, and kickstarted […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe On August 16, 2018, Aretha Franklin, popularly known as the “Queen of Soul”, passed away at her home in Detroit, Michigan at the age of 76. Born in Memphis, Tennessee on March […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe On January 30, 1972, British military forces opened fire on a peaceful demonstration of 15,000 in Derry, Northern Ireland leaving 14 dead and many others wounded. This massacre became known as […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe During the month of July, two heroic figures in the struggle against Jim Crow and race terror, Gloria Richardson Dandridge and Bob Moses passed away. Their lives intersected with the upsurge in […]
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