A US Navy cruiser anchored in Mississippi for a week’s shore leave. The first evening, the ship’s Captain received the following note from the wife of a wealthy plantation owner: “Dear Captain, Thursday will be my daughter Melinda’s Debutante Ball. I would like you to send four well-mannered, handsome, unmarried officers in their formal dress […]
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The Negro Motorist Green Book
The Negro Motorist Green Book was a publication released in 1936 that served as a guide for African-American travelers. Because of the racist conditions that existed from segregation, blacks needed a reference manual to guide them to integrated or black-friendly establishments. That’s when they turned to “The Negro Motorist Green Book: An International Travel Guide […]
Mr. Donald Charles Unsworth, 78
The following has been indicated as being an actual obituary from a Rome, Ga. local newspaper. Mr. Donald Charles Unsworth, age 78 of Charlton Street, Rome died Monday evening following a brief illness. A memorial service will be held Friday, 1 p.m. in the Thomas B. Griffen Memorial Chapel of Daniel’s Funeral Home with Rev. […]
HAPPY Halloween!
Artist Ray Villafane began carving pumpkins on a lark for his art students in a small rural school district in Michigan. The hobby changed his life as he gained a viral following online and unlocked his genuine love of sculpting. Here are images of pumpkin carvings Villafane created over the past five years.
Police Punches Woman On Tape In Jaywalking Incident
A witness video of a police officer punching a young woman during a jaywalking incident escalated has been stirring up controversy after it was shown on several television stations. On the tape the officer is seen trying to detain one of the women when another shoves him. He has said that he believed she was […]
Flooding in Tennessee
Intense rainfall in Tennessee, Kentucky and Mississippi may have slipped under the radar of the public’s conscience, considering the large Oil Spill in the Gulf, and the dramatic fight over immigration rights in Arizona, but it certainly has impacted hundreds of thousands living in the region. The rain caused an incredible amount of damage. Click […]
How the mass incarceration of black men hurts black women
IMAGINE that the world consists of 20 men and 20 women, all of them heterosexual and in search of a mate. Since the numbers are even, everyone can find a partner. But what happens if you take away one man? You might not think this would make much difference. You would be wrong, argues Tim […]
Hiroshima vs. Detroit
We all know that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed in August 1945 after explosion of atomic bombs.However, we know little about the progress made by the people of that land during the past 64 years. Be sure to click through all the photos! What happened to the radiation that’s supposed to last thousands of years?

