Photo Credit: Madam Toussaint, No that’s not Jay Smooth above! You asked for it based on your responses to the random quotes in the upper left hand section of this blog. Welcome to sofreshandsogreen.com’s Black History Month Jay Smooth Quotes Week! My least favorite trend of recent years is how the term “freestyle” has been […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Copyright © 2009 Beowulf Sheehan/PEN American Center for non-profit editorial use Here are some of Harriet Washington’s words from an interview she did in 2007 with Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! The medical scholar and author of “Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
EPA Administrator Lisa P.Jackson addresses the Brownfields2009 Conference in New Orleans, LA. USEPA Photo Eric Vance Below are the words of New Orleans native Lisa Jackson, the first African-American Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Sometimes I think we spend a lot of time being concerned with what President Obama does, but he has […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I believe that you shouldn’t have to leave your neighborhood to live in a better one.” Majora Carter is a Black environmental activist. And you thought it couldn’t be done! I tried to told you- there are others!!! If you’ve never heard of Majora Carter you will. Here’s the short version of her story: She […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.” ~ George Washington Carver Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“[Woodson] literally made this country, which has only the slightest respect for people of color, recognize and celebrate each year, a week in which it studied the effect which the American Negro has upon life, thought, and action in the United States. I know of no one man who in a lifetime has, unaided, built […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Earth we share is not just a rock tossed through space, but a living, nurturing being. She cares for us, she deserves our care in return.” ~Michael Jackson Fresh off of the Grammy tribute here we have a quote from MJ himself. At the Grammy tribute to the late artist those in charge saw […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
PHOTO CREDIT: Getty Images, NAKHODKA, RUSSIA – DECEMBER 28: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attends the opening ceremony of Transneft’s newly built oil-loading port of Kozmino December 28, 2009 near Nakhodka, Russia. Putin is on a two-day trip to the Russian Far East region of Primorsky Krai. Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has taken part […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I heard this speech again for the first time in December. This is Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “A Christmas Sermon on Peace” (1967). Dr. King first delivered this sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he served as co-pastor. On Christmas Eve, 1967. There was always something missing to me in his ideas about […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I met young kids with AIDS that don’t know their parents or their own names that smile and appreciate when you give them a hug and a handshake. I was the first person with some type of notoriety to visit them and they said I may be the only person that would ever come see […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
