Sublime

It’s out of these and many more scenarios where we’ve had to tone down our Blackness and assimilate more of our white counterparts’ mannerisms into our living lexicon to achieve some semblance of success in corporate America.

Many people make the mistake of assuming that, because Henry Ford had but little “schooling, “ he is not a man of “education.” Those who make this mistake do not know Henry Ford, nor do they understand the real meaning of the word “educate.” That word is derived from the Latin word “educo, “ meaning to educe, to draw out, to DEVELOP FROM WITHIN. An

When I was a youngster, this was drilled into me by my grandmother. The idea was given to her by a certain slave minister who, on occasion, held secret religious meetings with his fellow slaves. How everything in me quivered with the pulsing tremor of raw energy when, in her recital, she would come to the triumphant climax of the minister: “You—you

Booker T. Washington tells an anecdote told to him by Frederick Douglass, about a time he was traveling and was asked to move and ride in the baggage car because of his race. A white supporter rushed up to apologize for this horrible offense. “I am sorry, Mr. Douglass, that you have been degraded in this manner,” the person said. Douglass would hav

What would he do when someone called him “Boy” instead of “Mr. Ford”? How would he handle a manager who thought Negroes had no place in a corporation like IBM? Would he fight back when a group of engineers sought to foul a project to make him look bad?

Du Bois used the term “the talented tenth” to describe the likelihood of one in ten Black men becoming leaders of their race in the world through methods such as continuing their education, writing books, or becoming directly involved in social change. He strongly believed that Blacks needed a classical education to be able to reach their full pote

founding member of a new organization called 100 Black Men. The

I admire the story of Ruth Simmons, the president of Brown University, the first black woman to hold that position, who was once asked by an interviewer why she got a Ph.D. in French literature. Her reply was perfect. "Because everything in the world belongs to me," she said. She knew that such a question would never have been asked of a