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1) Booker T Washington Founder of Tuskegee Institute Using Education as a Key Instrument for Black Elevation
Author:
Arthur Edgar E. Smith
Category:
Education
Booker T. Washington was one person whose abilities and energy have taken him far beyond the limitations life placed on him. He rose up from slavery and illiteracy to become the foremost educator and leader of black Americans at the turn of the 19th century. For decades, he was the major African-American spokesman, lecturer, Civil Rights/Human Rights Activist, Educational Administrator, Professor, Organization Executive/Founder and Author/Poet.
His childhood is recorded in his autobiography...
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2) W.E.B Dubois, the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University and noted Black Leader
Author:
Arthur Edgar E. Smith
Category:
News and Society
A noted scholar, lecturer, editor, public intellectual, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, poet, and African American civil rights activist, William Edward Burghardt Dubois (W.E.B.Du Bois) was born on February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
He was one of the most influential black leaders of the first half of the 20th Century. A founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP -- the largest and oldest civil rig...
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3) Speaking and Lecturing For Worthy Causes like Liberation and Emancipation
Author:
Arthur Edgar E. Smith
Category:
Communications
Frederick Douglas who was born a slave after several failed attempts fled from slavery and travelled by train and ferry far away from the scene of his escape. His escape to freedom eventually led him to New York, the entire journey taking less than 24 hours.
Douglass joined various organizations in New Bedford, Massachusetts, including a black church, and regularly attended abolitionist meetings. He subscribed to William Lloyd Garrison's weekly journal, The Liberat and in 1841, he heard Gar...
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4) A Slave Narrative That Touched Many Hearts and Moved Many Souls Against Slavery:Douglas'
Author:
Arthur Edgar E. Smith
Category:
News and Society
Born a slave Frederick Douglass emerged as one of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement, which fought to end slavery within the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War..
Douglass' best-known work is his first autobiography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which was published in 1845.
Told in 125 pages, the story of Douglas's life is from early childhood until he escaped from bondage and changed his last name from Bailey to Doug...
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5) Frederick Douglas's Struggles to Attain Literacy and Breaking Free from Slavery
Author:
Arthur Edgar E. Smith
Category:
News and Society
Frederick Douglass previously known as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, one of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement, which fought to end slavery within the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War was born a slave in Tuckahoe, Talbot County, Eastern Shore, Maryland, near Hillsborough,in February of 1817, as it is commonly believed. The exact date of his birth is uncertain.
Much speculation surround Douglas's earliest years as much as his parentage. One was that...
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6) The Re-emergence of Science Fiction as a Reckonable Literary Genre
Author:
Arthur Edgar E. Smith
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
Science fiction has emerged as acceptable in the literary cannon with the inclusion of a wide selection of science fiction writers as worthy of studying. At least this was one of the facts I learnt of a genre which I had for long associated with popular thrillers when we discussed Contemporary American Literature in the US a year ago
Science fiction is a broad genre of fiction often involving speculations on current or future science or technology usually found in books, art, television, fi...
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7) The Fate of Equiano Determined at Last
Author:
Arthur Edgar E. Smith
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
Towards mid May, 1763 Equiano was sunk in depression, all the time believing that Fate's blackest clouds were gathering over his head, and expecting that upon their bursting would mix him with the dead and when the ship on which he was engaged was about to sail for England, it was then Captain Doran sent for him ashore.
Equiano was frightened as to what was going to befall him now. But then Doran's messenger intimated him that his fate has been determined. With fluttering steps and trembling...
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8) A Long Arduous Journey, Prayer and Quest for Freedom: Olaudah Equiano's Dream
Author:
Arthur Edgar E. Smith
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
Throughout his enslavement from Africa across the Atlantic on to America and all through the numerous expeditions with his master Pascal,and subsequent masters Olaudah Equiano kept longing and equipping himself to be free one day. Education and enlightenment was thus his constant prayer and quest.
A Captain Doran approached and addressed him as his slave. Equiano hotly contested maintaining that his master, Pascal, could not sell him to him, or to anyone else. "For I have served him many y...
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9) 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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10) Anna Politkovskaya's life Sacrificed for Social and Political Justice: Slain Russian Writer and Journalist,.
Author:
Arthur Edgar E. Smith
Category:
News and Society
On 7th October 2006, Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead in the elevator of her apartment building. The 48-year-old mother of two was fiercely critical of the Kremlin's actions in Chechnya. A pistol and four bullets were found near her body. Ms Politkovskaya's murder had all the hallmarks of a contract killing for which Moscow had become notorious. She had been known for her pioneering reporting on the Chechnyen war and in particular for her commitment to the people of Chechnya for which she won...
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11) Abiodun's Changing Fortunes
Author:
Arthur Edgar E. Smith
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
It has been raining since morning. But as is usual of that month, it suddenly ceased. The brilliant sun then sets in radiating its rays across the city. Despite this, rain still seems to be threatening to burst angrily from the sky. Oblivious of all this, the long meandering traffic flows defiantly on.
Dead asleep in a low wooden black-painted house at Fourah Bay Road, is John Abiodun Thompson. Outside, other school-going boys and girls with their parents are shopping preparing for their ret...
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12) Orality and Historic Echoes Running Through Yambo Ouloguem's BOUND TO VIOLENCE
Author:
Arthur Edgar E. Smith
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
Malian writer, Yambo Ouologuem's most famous novel BOUND TO VIOLENCE[1968] satirically portrays Africa before and during colonial subjugation whilst assessing the role of local overlords who in league with Arab slave dealers, sold their subjects into bondage.
After winning the prestigious French literary prize, Prix Renaudot, Yambo received much media attention, being widely reviewed, appearing on T.V. shows and being interviewed, being featured in many prominent publications and the book...
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13) The Passing of another Collosus in the Black Literature and Negritude - Aime Cesaire
Author:
Arthur Edgar E. Smith
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
An anticolonialist poet and politician who was honored throughout the French-speaking world and who was an early proponent of negritude, black pride, along with Senghor, Damas and U'Tamsi died here on Thursday April 17, 2008. A government spokeswoman, said he died at a hospital where he was being treated for heart problems and other ailments From April 9, 2008, he had serious heart troubles and was admitted at Pierre Zobda Quitman hospital in Fort-de-France until his death. He was 94.
Mr....
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14) The Traveling of the Olympic Torch along with Shi's Poem "June" and its translation into Various Languages as it Traverses the Globe
Author:
Arthur Edgar E. Smith
Category:
News and Society
The International PEN Poem Relay website was launched, March 25 as the Olympic Torch was being lit and as it was starting its journey across Greece towards Athens. At the same time Shi's poem 'June" virtually left Taiyuan City, Shi Tao's hometown and traveled to Greece. On March 30, the poem arrived at Greek PEN Centre (at the same time the Olympic Torch arrived in Panathinaiko Stadium in Greece).
This relay follows as far as possible the track of the Olympic torch but unlike it, it has not...
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15) A Dream of Coming into Great Wealth Turning Sour
Author:
Arthur Edgar E. Smith
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
Equiano's new master Robert King, a Quaker merchant from Philadelphia who traded in the Caribbean, upon acquiring, Equiano set him to work on his shipping routes and in his stores immediately.
Soon King grew so close and fond of Equiano that he started thinking out a scheme whereby he could be free.
King soon promised that for forty pounds, the price he had paid for Equiano, Equiano could buy his freedom. He taught him to read and write more fluently, educated him in the Christian faith...
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16) A Vibrant, Diverse, Lively, Active and Varied Art Scene in Louisville
Author:
Arthur Edgar E. Smith
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
Louisville is blessed with amongst many other artistic touches, a vibrant and diverse arts community includes lively and active theatrical activities provided by the talented effort of Actors Theatre of Louisville, a Tony-Award-winning repertory theatre housed in a 1837 bank building now designated as a national historic landmark and whose stone columned portion is one of the oldest buildings in Main Street and one of the finest examples of small scale Greek revival architecture in the U.S. As...
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