To Inspire You

We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.

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Today In History

• In 1881 - Payton Johnson patents swinging chair
  
• In 1950 - Signing with the Atlantic City Seagulls, Arthur Dorrington becomes first black to play in organized hockey
  
• In 1979 - Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Professor Arthur Lewis of Princeton. First black cited in a category other than peace