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Neither A Peep, Nor A Tweet Over Nashville and Saraland Waffle House From Trump

18/04/24 at 7.18pm / by Michael / 2 Comments

Photo by Jodie Morgan on Unsplash My maternal grandmother had an intense dislike for Herbert Hoover. She believed that Hoover was too much of an aristocrat to have empathy for the average American. She knew fascinating details about all of the presidents from Teddy Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan. She was married the year before Hoover came into power. Her first child, my mom, was born six weeks after Hoover was elected. Although the family lived in the segregated south, there were always sufficient seeds to plant crops, and bountiful land to fish and hunt for food. As a child, I did not understand

Sex, Pimping, and Sorority Pledging at A Georgia University?

18/04/22 at 5.52pm / by Michael / 0 Comment

Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has been called in to probe sexual misconduct allegations against one of the nation’s oldest Black College Sororities, on the campus of Fort Valley State University. The university was founded in 1895 as Fort Valley High and Industrial School to provide education for descendants of people who had been enslaved on Middle Georgia cotton and peach plantations. In 1939, the school was purchased by the State of Georgia, designated as a land-grant college and renamed Fort Valley State College. In the 21st century the school received the university designation. One

The Two Most Disturbing Things About The Starbucks Arrests

18/04/18 at 5.47pm / by Michael / 3 Comments

“A woman working on a laptop at a table by the window” by Andrew Neel on Unsplash Let me hasten to say, what happened at Starbucks in Philadelphia last weekend happens all the time in America, especially to Black men. In this respect there is not much to see here.It’s has happened to me, but not in Starbucks. I don’t go there because the coffee is too expensive for my taste buds. The fact the two Black men were asked to leave Starbucks in the first place is horrible enough without the taint of bias in the dispatch. What compounds the Starbucks manager’s

Albert Murray:The Omni American Interned at Tuskegee

18/04/09 at 8.21pm / by Michael / 4 Comments

Albert Murray came home to Tuskegee where he will rest in peace with other greats of Tuskegee. Albert Murray coined the phase Omniamerican as a way to explain the cultural conundrum that the American melting pot is and always has been. He did not like the expression Black American or German American. Murray began with the “basic assumption that the United States is a mulatto culture.” There was no better way to explain the bastardization of American culture than through the gutteral sounds of jazz music, which he loved and appreciated along with the blues and the classics. Murray was

The Gay Preacher’s Wife

18/04/07 at 8.57pm / by Michael / 3 Comments

Lydia Meredith author of The Gay Preacher’s Wife entertaining questions during a book club dinner in Atlanta. Seated to her left is the author Edgar Baines. Photo Credits © 2018 Harold Michael Harvey I recently met Lydia Meredith at a local book club dinner. She is the author of The gay Preacher’s Wife: How My Gay Husband Deconstructed My Life and Reconstructed My Faith . The ladies in the book club did not know what to make of the book and sought to get the perspective of a heterosexual man, so they invited me. I’m glad they did. As I began to read the

A Seed inside a Seed: Memphis Fifty Years After King

18/04/04 at 10.55am / by Michael / 0 Comment

Note: This is an excerpt from my forthcoming book on the meaning of Memphis fifty years after Martin Luther King, Jr. A seed trapped inside of a seed representative of King in Memphis Photo by Scott Webb Unsplash In Memphis, “The King” may be Elvis, but the city since April 4, 1968 has been defined by what happened to “A King” on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel outside of room 306. Like Dallas, Texas, Memphis, Tennessee suffers from a sense of metaphysical guilt over the blood, in this instance, of a King, who came in peace and was slain

Tuskegee Alumni Should Take Boycott Lessons From David Hogg

18/04/03 at 6.08am / by Michael / 5 Comments

David Hogg, 18 years-old and a survivor of the Parkland High School Massacre can teach a thing or two to alumni of Tuskegee University about the art of the boycott. Last month, Laura Ingraham, host of the Fox News Show, The Ingraham Angle mocked Hogg because he has been turned down by four colleges for fall admission. Ingraham’s mock angered Hogg, so he resorted to a tactic skillfully used by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a modern day twist. He called for a boycott of Ingraham’s sponsors. Nothing novel about calling for a boycott, as King was very successful

Breeding Babies or Breeding Racial Hatred?

18/04/01 at 3.56pm / by Michael / 4 Comments

Photo by megan lynette on Unsplash Breeding babies or breeding racial hatred? In 1971, I was a college student at Tuskegee University. Two of my classmates and I decided to drive down to Ozark, Alabama to attend George Wallace’s kick-off run for President. Although, the crowd was not dressed in the garb of the KKK, they might very well have been. Women carrying six-week-old babies, some younger, some slightly older, dressed in diapers with a Wallace bumper sticker draped around their bodies filled the campaign rally. In smaller print were the words: “Segregation Today, Segregation Tomorrow.” The babies were everywhere. The

The Cop Killing of Unarmed Black Men Must Stop!

18/03/31 at 11.18am / by Michael / 0 Comment

While another cop goes free for killing an unarmed Black man another cop kills another Black man Photo by Daniel Tafjord on Unsplash The wholesale killing of unarmed Black men must stop. Enough cop killings are enough! Stop this police brutality now! It never ceases to amaze me that a white gunman can kill a large number of people and they can be captured alive. For instance, the young white boy that killed Black Christians at their weekly prayer meeting in Charleston, South Carolina. The cops in that case actually stopped by the local Burger King to buy him a hamburger because he

Ralph Worrell A Servant Warrior Goes Home

18/03/28 at 9.29pm / by Michael / 2 Comments

Ralph Worrell was a servant warrior. Like any warrior he was tenacious. But he was above all else a servant. He embodied the spirit of the drum major Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. preached was necessary to be first in the kingdom. Worrell was born in Barbados 88 years ago. His ancestors were among those Africans who could not be broken for service as a slave in America. They did not make it to the mainland during the period of enslavement. The slaveholders feared Africans with the warrior spirit would revolt thereby toppling the free labor system which drove the

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