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1) Celebrating with Black Boy on the Centennial of Richard Wright.
Author:
Arthur Edgar E. Smith
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
I have for long been touched by the literary excellence of Black Boy of all Richard Wright's work which I have had a reading, teaching experience spanning well over twenty years, a period in which I have kept wondering as to what makes it such a wonderful representation of a writer and at the same time remain a lively, gripping, intriguing, and illuminating read almost throughout the pages. That this year is the Centennial of his birth which is being marked deservedly well with many literary ev...
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2) Atlanta Georgia: The City Too Busy to Hate
Author:
Matthew Pressman
Category:
Travel and Leisure
Atlanta, Georgia, is the capital of southeast America; although America's southern states were the last to abolish slavery and segregation, Atlanta has always tried to set itself apart from these places as a more liberal, forward thinking city.
Since the 1960s, Atlanta as been linked to civil rights movements, and was a major centre of action in these regards. Atlanta's most famous resident was Martin Luther King, who was born there in 1929 and went on to be a major campaigner...
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3) Martin Luther King, Catalyst for a Peaceful Revolution
Author:
Mitch Mueller
Category:
News and Society
Martin Luther King received the Nobel Prize for Peace for his work leading a peaceful revolution in America's civil rights movement.Early YearsMartin Luther King, Jr., originally Michael Luther King, was born January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, to Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. and Alberta Williams King. Both King, Sr. and Alberta preached at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, as King Jr. would later do himself. He had an older sister, named Willie Christine, a...
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