In less than 12 hours, I was saturated in Asian and black culture all on a Saturday in the Q.C. My day started on Lake Norman for the annual Charlotte Dragonboat Festival. Dozens of organizations and businesses sponsored boats to participate in the races on the lake. The event was part of the annual Asian […]
This isn’t Black History Month, but today is an important day. It is the day that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and several other notable African Americans reached Montgomery, Alabama after marching for four days from Selma. The Selma-to-Montgomery March for voting rights ended three weeks–and three events–that represented the political and emotional peak of […]
Ralph Bunche was an American diplomat and political scientist whose work on domestic policy and foreign affairs shaped the struggle for human rights. Bunche was…
