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Monroe Nathan Work, A Quiet Crusader and Diligent Scholar

October 25, 2024

By Dannie Gore Like his contemporaries W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington, Monroe Nathan Work (1866-1945) devoted his life to improving the status of black Americans. Unlike DuBois and Washington, however, Work was a quiet crusader, a painstaking and diligent scholar who believed that he could do more to help the black cause by the […]

The Soweto Uprising June 16, 1976

June 19, 2024

By Dannie Gore Soweto, South Africa On June 16, 1976, black high school students numbering in the thousands took to the streets to protest their grievances over a racially discriminatory educational policy that forced them to use Afrikaans as the official language in the classroom. The ensuing clashes between the police and the defenseless children […]

Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee, Obstetrician and Civil Rights Activist

April 21, 2024

By Dannie Gore, Sr. Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee (October 10, 1898 – September 14, 1980) was an African American obstetrician and civil rights activist. Who Was Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee? Born in a middle-class family in Norfolk, Virginia, Boulding grew up in Boston, where she attended The English High School and Simmons College before studying […]