“…I’m not aware of any serious scholarship on black Cleveland in the 1960s…Thus I very much would want us to find some young historian who’d take an active research interest in Winston’s life history and fascinating achievements wholly apart from litigation prospects.” David J. Garrow, 1987 Pulitzer Prize Winner for…

“Us is free! But where can us go?” — Today’s nationwide Juneteenth celebrations stir memories of the movie Buck and the Preacher, a film in the Western genre, which was Sidney Poitier’s directorial debut. It opened 50 years ago, on April 28, 1972, during the early days of the popular Blaxploitation era. At the time, the general consensus held…

On this day: In June of 1963: One of the most seminal moments in American history began on the previous evening of June 11th. President John F. Kennedy spoke to the nation in a solemn and serious televised speech on what he called the most pressing domestic issue of the day. The Negro’s struggle for civil rights…

This is what fighting back looks like. Being a woman of a certain age, my emotions, in the aftermath of the SCOTUS leak of their intention to overturn Roe v. Wade, range somewhere between mind-numbing anger and sorrow for the new generation of women. …

QUESTION: What lies beneath the ever-expanding main campus? ANSWER: A sizeable piece of the American Dream.

…Seneca Village in New York, … 105th and Euclid in Cleveland Having written extensively, and with familial knowledge, on the subject of Black land loss in this country, I have noticed recently, and with no small amount of gratification, that the news media is finally taking notice of these rarely…

Every year around this time, the requests begin from my long-time readers for re-posting of my Blog posts relating to the year 1963, specifically the one on the shocking assassination of our 35th president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. I originally wrote this in 1990 as an…

“…their own private driveway.” Just as Winston Willis predicted years ago: