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  • Melba’s Restaurant located in Harlem to be on ABC’s The View this week


    HarlemGal Inc. — Authority Authority: 106
    I just read on Facebook that the fabulous woman behind Melba’s Restaurant , i.e. Melba, will be on The View this coming Thursday, January 26 at 11 AM. That is so awesome! I think the show should be called, that day, the HarlemGal’s show! Why? Two awesome ladies, who reside in Harlem, will be sitting side by ...
    1 week ago

  • Ron Glover Talks Football With Fritz Pollard III – Part I


    The Starting Five — Authority Authority: 115
    (Brown University) I’m currently working on a book that chronicles the life of the great Frederick Douglass “Fritz” Pollard. Pollard preceeded Jackie Robinson as a pioneer in the intergration of team sports in the United States. Pollard was the first Black man to play in the Rose Bowl in 1915 as a player ...
    1 week ago

  • Marcos Leatherlab Shoe Repair coming to Harlem’s Frederick Douglass Blvd


    HarlemGal Inc. — Authority Authority: 106
    Looks like one business person is going to mix it up on Harlem’s Frederick Douglass Blvd by not open up a dining establishment, but by opening up a shoe repair store. Marcos Leatherlab has paper signage up on one of the retail spaces in the Gateway Tower/Condos saying they are coming soon! How soon? I don’t know. ...
    1 week ago

  • Beginning by standing on the porch and looking out from the studio into the snow and the darkness at 5 a.m.


    Talking 37th Dream With Rainbow (rumors of peace) — Authority Authority: 106
    A single streptocarpus flower, from a plant native to Africa, bloomed here yesterday on Martin Luther King Day: Do not depend on the hope of results. … you may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not ...
    1 week ago

  • MLK Day, an opposing view


    The Daley Gator — Authority Authority: 637
    Frankly, I have no issue with the holiday, but maybe I should? Bob Belvedere raises some interesting points   -I was not a supporter of making Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday a national holiday.  I am still not.  If his career had ended the day after his I Have A Dream Speech [August 1963], I probably [...]
    1 week ago

  • Frederick Douglass on Barack Obama


    Electronic Village — Authority Authority: 111
    128 years ago, Frederick Douglass provided the explanation for why people are so hard on President Obama . The quote below is worth remembering next time we are invited to pile on. "Though the colored man is no longer subject to barter and sale, he is surrounded by an adverse settlement which fetters all his ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Modern Library Mass Market Paperbacks)


    Book Critic — Authority Authority: 141
    "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" (first published in 1845) and Harriet Jacobs’ "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (1861) are probably the two most powerful examples of the slave narrative. This literary form represents the first-person accounts of individuals who have lived as slaves. The Modern ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Frederick Douglass among the Lilacs


    NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS — Authority Authority: 107
    Rochester’s Highland Park is an arboretum, or tree garden, located along Reservoir Avenue. The Park has a sunken garden, a Gothic-style castle (known as the "Warner Castle"), and a greenhouse called Lamberton Conservatory.  A statue of Frederick Douglass the famed American social reformer, orator, writer and ...
    2 weeks ago

  • ‘Living Proof that Slaves could be Accomplished American Citizens’


    NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS — Authority Authority: 107
    Frederick Douglass the famed American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman was born in February 1818 on the Holme Hill Farm in Talbot County, Maryland. His father was an unnamed white man, his mother, Harriet Bailey (1792-c1825), a slave owned by Aaron Anthony. After escaping from slavery Douglass rose to ...
    2 weeks ago

  • What to the Slave is the 4th of July?


    RochesterSubway.com — Authority Authority: 396
    On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day we are hopefully reminded of the inspiring actions and many speeches by an individual who dedicated his life to the pursuit of freedom and basic human rights—not just for one group, but for all people. Of course, in Rochester we also remember other individuals who made tremendous ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Frederick Douglass on Barack Obama


    Proud Black Voter Blog — Authority Authority: 85
    128 years ago, Frederick Douglass provided the explanation for why people are so hard on President Obama . The quote below is worth remembering next time we are invited to pile on. "Though the colored man is no longer subject to barter and sale, he is surrounded by an adverse settlement which fetters all his ...
    2 weeks ago

  • January 14, 1862: Frederick Douglass "The Reasons for Our Troubles"


    The American Civil War — Authority Authority: 113
    Frederick Douglass addressed the underlying causes of the American Civil War in a speech he delivered 150 years ago today. THE REASONS FOR OUR TROUBLES: Speech on the War Delivered in National Hall, Philadelphia, January 14, 1862. Douglass Monthly, February, 1862 Ladies and Gentlemen:— My purpose to-night is not ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Frederick Douglass Scholarship for American Students at Washington College


    Scholarships Sites — Authority Authority: 124
    Frederick Douglass Fellowships The Frederick Douglass Fellowships support independent work in African-American studies and related areas. The author, activist, and diplomat Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), for whom the fellowships were named, was born in Talbot County, Md., about 30 miles south of Chestertown, and ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Layers start to unfold on story around Harlem church and Livmor developer


    HarlemGal Inc. — Authority Authority: 106
    In December, I wrote about how Londel’s Supper Club is planning to open up a second location in Harlem, specifically in the Livmor Condos’ commercial space, located on the corner of 115th and Frederick Douglass Blvd. That blog post garnered some interesting/revealing comments . I recommend reading them. Fast ...
    2 weeks ago

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