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Tom Hanks, Saving Private Ryan & The Truth

September 8, 2021

By Dannie Gore Sr. The 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion VLAWhen actor Tom Hanks was asked why there were no black soldiers shown in the movie “SavingPrivate Ryan,” he said that there had been none in the area. He was mistaken. The 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion VLA Very Low Altitude (colored) was unique at Normandy for […]

School Boycott! Freedom Day February 3, 1964

July 24, 2021

By Dannie Gore On Monday, February 3, 1964, about 45 percent of all New York City students stayed out of school in the boycott to protest against school segregation. An estimated 464,361 students and teachers participated overall making the event the largest U.S. civil rights demonstration of the 1960s, nearly twice as big as […]

The Civil Rights Hero Who Defied Racial Segregation

October 14, 2020

By Dannie D. Gore, Sr. |||| Vivian Juanita Malone was one of the first two African American students to enroll at the University ofAlabama in 1963 and the University’s first African American graduate. She was made famous by defyingAlabama Governor George Wallace’s infamous “stand in the schoolhouse door” to block her and JamesHood from enrolling […]