Going Home to Tuskegee University, A Familiar Place

To Celebrate 100 Years of Homecoming

Albert Murray, the internationally acclaimed Black intellectual of the 20th century and a writer trained at Tuskegee Institute in the 1940s, wrote that the comforting thing about returning to your roots is that you are “going home to a familiar place.”

Yesterday, I returned home to a familiar place in East Alabama to celebrate the 100th homecoming celebration at Tuskegee University, that “Pride of the South,” which lifted the veil of ignorance inflicted by White society from the face of former enslaved Africans in the United States. read more

Book Discussion on Macon’s First Black Councilmembers

The Middle Georgia African American History Committee to Host Author

On November 20, 2024, the Middle Georgia Regional African American History Committee will host a book discussion with award-winning author Harold Michael Harvey. The talk will occur at the Middle Georgia Regional Library, 1180 Washington Avenue, Macon-Bibb County, Georgia, at 4:00 pm. in the Genealogy and Historical Room. read more

Princess Leia and Darth Vader

Will the Empire Strike Back?

In my new book, Fantasy Five (Cascade Publishing House, Atlanta, 2024), about the 1975 election of the first five Black members of the Macon, Georgia city council, I also recount the historic campaign of Rev. Julius C. Hope, a Black Baptist preacher, who made a landmark run for the Macon mayor’s office during the summer of 1975. He did not win but shared an axiom with his audience at every campaign rally. He offered up the adage, “Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.” read more