Remembrance And Legacy In the all too brief time I personally knew Mel King, thanks to an introduction by another old friend, Cheryl Holmes Ph.D, I think it can be safely said he would not consider any of his actions throughout his life as deserving recognition beyond what others might or have done. To him,…
The original draft of this post observed events as of mid 2022. Since the last published post in 2021 there’s been more shooting of black men, women and children. Too many resulted from highly questionable circumstances ranging from suspicion of firearm possession, profiling, to fleeing a traffic stop to executing a no-knock warrant and self-defense…
Pause and think about this. It is 1619 and a group of Africans who were destined to become indentured servants landed on the shores of the Virginia colony. Soon the European settlers realized that these indentured servants were easily identified. Voila, here begins slavery and the growth of the products they labored to plant, tend…
At this point in time I keep discovering hills and valleys of emotion which I’m sure is, to one degree or another, not a unique revelation. Your emotional terrain is most likely similar. I am a child of the sixties, and despite witnessing/living through the moment of assassinations of political figures/activists, historic marches and riots,…
The Urban League of Massachusetts Boston celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding on 16-May-2019. The ULEM newsletter “The Vantage Point” of 16-Feb-2019 featured this image of a typewritten list of problems as “viewed by the League” in 1919. There are several items that had and still have implications beyond Boston’s borders. At the recent…
Agenda can be found at http://cba.mit.edu/events/18.06.Mel/
Sly Stone released an album June 30, 1973 called “Fresh” and on it is a tune: “Thankful N’ Thoughtful”. A lyric from that tune is “People got to be reminded, where it’s really at…” Project Chain of Change takes that admonition/observation/whatever you want to call it…seriously. History has to be kept in the foreground from…
We have all been here before. We have all been here before… But each time we get a little harder, we get a little tougher, we get a little stronger. We’ve got to be calmer, we’ve got to be cooler. We’ve got to stay together. I’ve borrowed (paraphrased) some lyrics from some of my favorite…