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Dorothy Butler Gilliam, reporter, columnist, trailblazer. Her book, Trailblazer:A Pioneering Journalist’s Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America,...
Denise Rolark Barnes, editor of The Washington Informer I have a particular fondness for this story, published this week in BlackHer,...
Here at The Allyson Group, we're about to relaunch this content creation thing with a clearer brand focus. Why? Because we...
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It's about the Scotch-Irish people who came to the Americas and dominated Appalachia's gritty coal mines until coal fell out of favor; the risks of coal dust finally proven not just for miners, but for everyone else as well.
The decline of mining drove the ambitious among them to the industrial cities of the north: Detroit, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, etc., where they populated the automobile and other factories then fueling the world economy.
J.D. Vance describes his people as "feuding" folk - citing his own ancestral connection to the legendary Hatfield-McCoy feud that apparently went on for generations. He asserts that this fighting nature is so ingrained in the culture that the only ones who escape it are those who marry outside it.
Women's History Month, like all the other months designated for special cultural observances, always provides an opportunity for us to reflect on the ideals that are most important to us.
In 2015 the United States Treasury announced that the portrait of Alexander Hamilton, the nation's first Treasury Secretary, on the $10 bill would be replaced by the image of an American woman - starting in 2020. There were online votes in which interested parties were asked to select from among a list of top contenders. However, the hit Broadway musical "Hamilton" renewed appreciation for Mr. Hamilton, and it was decided to let the $10 bill alone. The woman's portrait would instead go on the $20 bill.
We have learned that the woman will be Harriet Tubman.
We affectionately call Harriet Tubman "Black Moses" because her bravery in various capacities - surprising for a woman - rescued hundreds of enslaved people. Many supporters are pleased about this because Tubman's image will replace that of America's 7th President, Andrew Jackson, who got rich as a slave owner and was instrumental in robbing various Native American tribes of their land.