April Sims

I came across the following blog and wanted to share it with you. “Take the kinks out of your mind,” intoned Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), “instead of out of your hair.” As founder of the Universal ...

Today In Black History February 16   1857 - Frederick Douglass elected President of Freedman Bank and Trust The year 1874 was full of events for Douglass.  He was appointed President of Freedman's Saving and Trust Company in DC but both the bank ...

I asked my friend Janice Buerkli aka Janice B. to do a guest blog for black history month because she has a vantage point that many of you can or cannot relate to. Janice B. has been raised in predominately mixed ...

Today in Black History February 14 1. 1804 - New Jersey begins to abolish slavery In 1804 the New Jersey Legislature passed "An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery." It provided that females born of slave parents after July 4, 1804, ...

  A MOMENT IN TIME © April Sims    i am truly BLESSED to wake up with no ailments i still have my sight my speech my thoughts my smell and my sense of touch and sometimes i am selfish and the above never seem to be enough and every time i feel ...

Today in Black History February 14 1. 1818 - Frederick Douglass is born The son of a slave woman and an unknown white man, "Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey" was born in February of 1818 on Maryland's eastern shore. He spent his early ...

Today In Black History: February 13 1. 1818 - Founder of the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas, Absalom Jones dies Absalom Jones was born into slavery in Sussex County, Delaware, on November 6, 1746. He taught himself to read and knew the New Testament ...