THE REVOLT OF 1522 –

BY: NATASHA GREGG THE REVOLT OF 1522 – The earliest and most serious slave rebellion in the so called New World occurred on December 25, 1522 on the Spanish Caribbean colony of Hispaniola (Espanola), which is modern day Dominican Republic and Haiti. Approximately thirty years after Columbus first landed,…

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BLACK LIVES STILL MATTER

When the black justice movement got too powerful, the FBI got scared and got ugly In the 1970s, the surveillance and intimidation was no joke Members of the New Orleans Black Panther Party were arrested in September, 1970. Law enforcement’s strategy against the BPP was one of systematic harassment and criminalization.…

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FORGOTTEN BLACK WOMAN

This unheralded woman actually organized the Montgomery bus boycott Jo Ann Robinson is unfortunately overlooked by history Jo Ann Robinson’s booking photo after her arrest for helping organize the boycott. (Alabama State University) Earlier this week, the nation celebrated the birthday of civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. — a custom that…

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BLACK WOMEN IN HISTORY

The most important black woman sculptor of the 20th century deserves more recognition Augusta Savage started sculpting as a child in the 1900s using what she could get her hands on: the clay that was part of the natural landscape in her hometown of Green Cove Springs, Florida. Eventually…

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COLIHAUT UPRISING –

BY: NATASHA GREGG  COLIHAUT UPRISING – After the Treaty of Paris of 1763, that ceded Dominica to Britain, France in 1778, waged a successful invasion and recaptured the island during the American Revolution. However, the island was returned to Britain as part of the 1783 Treaty of Paris. The…

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THE FIRST CARIB WAR –

BY: NATASHA GREGG    THE FIRST CARIB WAR –   Crucial in the battle between European countries, namely Britain and France to build empires in the Eastern Caribbean were two things, sugar and slaves. The Caribbean islands were prime real estate for producing the profitable commodity sugar and the…

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THE BRIGANDS WAR –

BY: NATASHA GREGG    THE BRIGANDS WAR –   The Brigands were a name given by the British to runaway slaves, free coloreds, French army deserters, who called themselves Republicans and whites, all who held democratic philosophies in St. Lucia. The war, one of the many rebellions that took…

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THE CONSPIRACY OF 1735 –

BY: Natasha Gregg   THE CONSPIRACY OF 1735 – Fueled by severe depression, drought and an earthquake in 1735, a century before emancipation and several decades before the Haitian Revolution, many of the planter class of Antigua had no choice but to cut costs, which included their refusal to…

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NEVER FORGET

Never Forget: America’s Forgotten Mass Lynching: When 237 Black Sharecroppers Were Murdered In Arkansas In 1919, after the end of World War I, Black sharecroppers in Arkansas began to unionize. This attempt to form unions, triggered white vigilantism and mass killings, that left 237 Blacks dead. Towards the end…

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FÉDON’S REBELLION –

BY: Natasha Gregg   FÉDON’S REBELLION –   On February 10, 1763, Grenada was formally ceded to Britain via the Treaty of Paris, however, much of the colony’s populace was unhappy with British rule. Fédon’s Rebellion began on March 2, 1795 as an uprising against British colonialism in Grenada.…

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MENTORS AND MILESTONES
THE CHURCH IN THE COMMUNITY
THE BRIDGE OF TRUST
UNITED IN PURPOSE
THE GIFT OF PRESENCE
THE ART OF LISTENING
THE ESSENTIAL PARTNERSHIP
BEYOND THE CLASSROOM
THE UNBREAKABLE LINK
BUILDING YOUR FINANCIAL FORTRESS
THE HEART OF THE HOME
WORDS AND ACTIONS MATTER
LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE
THE GIFT OF GRATITUDE
RESPECT STARTS WITH LISTENING
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
COMMUNITY LEADERS AND THEIR ROLE
VALUING TEACHERS AND EDUCATION