Thanksgiving is this Thursday and next Month we have , Christmas, Kwanzaa, and followed by The New Year.
It is time to enjoy family and friends, and take a moment out to spend with love ones.
Month: November 2019
“Who was Jupiter Hammon”
Jupiter Hammon was the first African American to have his poetry Published in 1761.
Here is a news clip of a discovery of a piece of his work, An essay on Slavery. How he viewed slavery as a Black Man.
“Who remembers Rickey Henderson”
Henderson with his wife, Pamela, at the 2011 Baseball Hall of Fame induction parade
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Rickey Henderson one of Baseball’s greatest lead off hitters of all times. Wikipedia has a good Bio of his career in detail, and what he accomplished.
MLB Records
- 1,406 career stolen bases
- 2,295 career runs
- 81 career lead-off home runs
- 130 stolen bases, single season
“Why we vote on Election Day”
We vote every Election Day to reaffirm our struggle for voting rights. If we don’t use it we will surely loose it. It is that time of year again, so go to the poles and exercise your rights as a citizen of the United States of America.
Wikipedia: voting rights
Eligibility to vote in the United States is established both through the United States Constitution and by state law. Several constitutional amendments (the 15th, 19th, and 26th specifically) require that voting rights of U.S. citizens cannot be abridged on account of race, color, previous condition of servitude, sex, or age for those above 18; the constitution as originally written did not establish any such rights during 1787–1870, except that if a state permitted a person to vote for the “most numerous branch” of its state legislature, it was required to permit that person to vote in elections for members of the United States House of Representatives.[1] In the absence of a specific federal law or constitutional provision, each state is given considerable discretion to establish qualifications for suffrage and candidacy within its own respective jurisdiction; in addition, states and lower level jurisdictions establish election systems, such as at-large or single member district elections for county councils or school boards. Beyond qualifications for suffrage, rules and regulations concerning voting (such as the poll tax) have been contested since the advent of Jim Crow laws and related provisions that indirectly disenfranchised racial minorities.