Major League Baseball legend Lou Brock was born in El Dorado, Arkansas but when he was two years old, his family of sharecroppers moved to Collinston, Louisiana, where he remained through high school. Curiously, Brock did not...
Read MoreOne of the most common (and true) cliches in the English lexicon is that “parenting is hard work,” a fact that just about any parent can readily attest. But the hard work must be done, which is why I...
Read MoreBorn to formerly enslaved parents in 1875, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune spent her formative years picking cotton on a sharecropper farm in South Carolina before graduating from Scotia Seminary (later Barber-Scotia College, a North...
Read More“The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream…Not failure,...
Read MoreConstance Baker Motley was born on September 14, 1921 in New Haven, Connecticut. Raised in the New York area, during her youth, Motley’s parents were influential leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of...
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