Month: January 2018

History remembers Jesse Owens winning four gold metals in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany and Jackie Robinson who was the first Black Baseball player, in Major League Baseball. It was 1997  at a park across the street from City Hall in Pasadena,  California Matthew Robinson was finally honored for his accomplishment in the 1936  Olympics ,where he won a silver metal in the 200 meter race behind Jesse Owens by 4 tenths of a second, both braking the world record at the time. He and his brother Jackie Robinson have a bronze nine foot statute  of their faces in that park.

His story was told in a NY Times article on July 20, 2012 by Robert Weintraub  “Two Lives After Losing to Jesse Owens”

Welcome to Black History Month 2018

 

 

 

Students searching for some assistance with educational expenses, take a look at the listings on Blacknews.com, the url is below.

 

Top 10 African American Scholarships For January 2018 and Black History Month

People are always asking “what would Martin be saying if he were here today? In my opinion, there is one speech he made, known as, “The Drum Major Instinct” that would fit the bill in these times. I found it on youtube, along with many others, but this seem to be the one I could hear him saying now. If you have not heard it before, listen to it, and give your comments.

Happy New Year and may I say Congratulations to Ms. Oprah Winfrey  from the Black Community for another outstanding accomplishment.

 

Oprah Winfrey will receive the 2018 Cecil B. de Mille Lifetime Achievement Award at the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards, this January and will be the first black woman, so honored.

photo from redandblack.com

2018 is here and another year of Technology begins. Open up your mind and join the party.  If you have not heard of Blacks in Technology (BIT) you are behind the Times https://www.blacksintechnology.net/

Chapters are being formed all over the country and there may all ready be one near you.  If you want to know more about it, go to their website listed above. Everything today is digital in some way, and it is making the world smaller all the time. Your future and mind will depend on it, so why not be apart of it.  During the past holiday’s all I seem to see is electronic gadgets or games.  BIT groups have brain storming sessions,  discussing phases of this change in history. Now, can be, the beginning of your tomorrow!!!!