When the time came to move to Charlottesville, it was the summer of 1960. For all we knew Charlottesville might as well have been in Charlotte, North Carolina which was named for Queen Charlotte of England. I was thirteen years old, having finished the sixth...
“Red” they called him fondly, was raised in southern Georgia. One of seven children raised by a widowed mother. He knew poverty, but not hunger; knew deprivation but did not lack for love and affection. He experienced loss, but not the loss of hope, pain...
Now, I am not a historian but I am, a student of history. As one of my favorite historians, John Hope Franklin, has said, I am self tutored on many of these matters. Perhaps self tutoring is the best way to learn anything thoroughly....
When I was a kid growing up in Richmond, Virginia between 1953 and 1960, I lived in a middle class neighborhood of single family two story, three and four bedroom homes, some of frame, painted white, others with various types of siding, each built on...
Bring Me All Of Your Dreams You Dreamer: Languidly, the lion roams the jungle of his environment looking for prey. Awakened from his somnolence, hunger motivates his restlessness. To satisfy this basic need, he only wants to attack prey that he knows and feels that...
Economists view the price system within the macro economy as a function of supply and demand and market share. Prices can be determined by particular producers who exercise price leadership and market share in a particular industry or in a particular commodity. The...
To the family, pulpit guest, and to all of you who have come to pay respects to my friend and to your friend Bryant McCl oskey, good morning and greetings. I am delighted to see so many of my friends from New York life...
The forefathers of this organization had the vision and courage to embark on a mission of salvation to improve the health and welfare of this community, a community, at that time that suffered from the twin afflictions of deprivation and the extremes of incivility to...