On this Inauguration Day, 2009, John Lewis, the respected Civil Rights veteran and long-serving congressman from Georgia, summed up the feelings that have been overwhelming me ever since the Iowa caucus suggested that a bi-racial man – a black man – a literal African American man named Barack Obama just might have a chance to [...]

In the year of 1960-1961, I was a senior attending a Black Methodist College (Wiley) in Marshall, Texas. During this time, the fight for civil and constitutional rights for Black Americans was in full force. I would be remiss not to mention that Wiley College is the birth place of the movie The Great Debaters [...]

“We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.”