Booker T. Washington Freedom Trail – Part 1
Booker T. Washington, educator and statesman, is Hampton University's most famous graduate and founder of Tuskegee University. In many ways, he embodies the spirit of all of Black higher education. He represented the core of the Black quest for education. Stressing the practical, but at no time ignoring the need to educate the whole person, he emphasized education as a tool to move people away from the crippling effects of slavery: the dependency, the social disorganization, the poverty, the ignorance. Washington's political views were as controversial as his approach to education, but his achievements made him the most powerful Black American who ever lived. And today, the seeds of his unshakable belief in character and self-help have blossomed into one of the major forces in higher education. (1005)
Dr. Chancellor Williams explains his focus on the psychology of Black Americans and its link to Africa's decline.
The mere decision to go to war for their country, a country that deprived them of basic human rights, proves even further the competence and unheralded character of some of the greatest men in American history. The pi...
The Tuskegee Airmen – Pt. 3: Jim Crow's Graveyard
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The Tuskegee Airmen -- Part 3 – Jim Crow's Graveyard. Shooting down #German airplanes, rather than effectively carrying out the assigned duties of close ground support and bomber escort, emerged as the criterion for ...
Benjamin Banneker: Truth to Power
Imagine being Black in the 1700s and becoming a self-taught surveyor who played a pivotal role in planning the layout of our nation's capitol and inventing a clock in 1753. In 1791 alone, Benjamin Banneker completed t...