Morning Glory Baptist Church

04/15/2022

05/15/2020

During the middle of the 1800s, cotton became the world’s largest commodity. The cheapest and best cotton came from the southern United States. Edward

05/15/2020

This week, Ida B. Wells, investigative journalist and civil rights crusader, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for “her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching.” The honor comes nearly 90 years following Wells-Barn...

02/27/2020

02/18/2020

Religion was no barrier for Southern lynch mobs intent on terror. White pastors joined the K*K, incited racial violence and took part in lynchings. Sometimes, the victim was a preacher.

02/14/2020

Who Is Gil Scott-Heron? has been re-released to coincide with the 10th anniversary of Gil’s album, I’m New Here. https://xl.ffm.to/imnewhere Directed by Jane...

02/12/2020

When Eugene Burnett saw the neat tract houses of Levittown, New York, he knew he wanted to buy one. It was 1949, and he was ready to settle down in a larger

12/27/2019

I don’t do Kwaanza, I just don’t. I never have, and the very thought of it evokes some difficult memories and feelings for me. It’s not the holiday’s religious trappings or its Afro-syncretic fusion of Jewish menorahs, Swahili words, Kemetic, Christian and other rituals. I understand people ...