To Inspire You

No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is simple. You knock a man down and then have him arrested for assault. You kill a man and then hang the corpse.

W.E.B. Dubois »

Today In History

• In 1972 - Major General Frederick E. Davidson becomes first African American to lead an Army division
  
• In 1950 - Charles "Chuck" Cooper becomes first African American ever drafted by an NBA team; picked by the Boston Celtics