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Sir James Douglas Led the Powerful Hudson’ Bay Company

March 30, 2025

By Dannie Gore, Sr. Sir James Douglas had a scotch father, Caribbean mother, and became one of the great makers of modern Canada. Starting as an apprentice, he rose to be head of the rich and powerful Hudson’s Bay Company. Douglas was chief pioneer of the Canadian Northwest, the First Governor of British Columbia […]

Fay M. Jackson: An African American journalist, publisher, publicist

March 30, 2025

Fay M. Jackson (1902-1979) By Dannie Gore, Sr. Fay M. Jackson was a pioneering African American journalist, publisher, publicist, and newspaper correspondent. At sixteen she left Dallas for Los Angeles where she attended L. A. Polytechnic High School. In 1922, she entered the University of Southern California where she majored in journalism and philosophy. During […]

Victor Sejour – France’s Most Popular Playwright in the 1850s

March 17, 2025

By Dannie Gore Victor Sejour, New Orleans Mulatto, rose to be France’s most popular playwright in the 1850s. Born in 1817, he won distinction at the age of 17 with his first poem. In 1836 his parents sent him to Paris to escape America’s color prejudice. Here he became private secretary to Louis Napoleon, later […]