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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 […]

An Unheralded Military Hero, Charles Young

November 20, 2023

By Dannie Gore Sr. Charles Young was the most highly decorated African American military officer of his time: The first African American national park superintendent The third black graduate of West Point The first African American officer to command a regular army regiment The first black U.S. military attaché A professor at Wilberforce University and […]

St. Benedict of Palermo, Black America’s Patron Saint, Ascetic Healer, Humble Teacher

April 28, 2023

By Dannie Gore, Sr. The Italian black Catholic saint’s name was Benedict, of Palermo, Sicily, and he was the son of African slaves. In life, Benedict was an ascetic healer who devoted his life to the humble teachings of St. Francis, in death, he was used by the Church and colonial European powers to convert […]