Keeper of the Past and Promise of our People
We had an opportunity to attend the Marvin Gaye stamp ceremony at the Greek Theatre, Tuesday, April 2 in Los Angeles. There were about 3000 attendees. It seemed that many were music lovers versus stamp collectors but needless to say the USPS was very busy and did a great job accommodating the crowd. Marvin Gaye
» Read moreMarch 9 – Youth Symposium with the Ladies of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. – Pop-Up Exhibit – Illinois March 15 – Visiting Every Child’s Hope – Pop-up Exhibit – Missouri March 30 – Celebrating African American Women on Stamps with the Ladies of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. – Illinois
» Read moreIf time permits join us today at the Edwardville Library from 2:00pm-4:00pm 112 S Kansas, Edwardsville, IL Giveaways – Raffles – Refreshments and of course a Pop-Up mini museum.
» Read moreCalvin Mitchell wrote an excellent tribute to Marian Anderson. He states, “Marian Anderson—one of the greatest concert and classical singers of the twentieth century—was honored on a stamp issued by the United States Postal Service on January 27, 2005. She was the first female singer and the eighth woman to be honored in the Black Heritage Stamp Series issued annually
» Read more1963 – More than 200,000 people march on Washington, D. C., in the largest civil-rights demonstration in U. S. history; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives his “I Have a Dream” speech. 1963 – Four young Black girls are killed in the bombing of a Birmingham, AL church. 1964 – President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964, giving government
» Read more1955 – Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, AL leading to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. 1957 – Little Rock Nine integrate Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas. 1960 – Four Black student stage famous sit-in at a whites-only Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, NC. 1961 – Freedom rides
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Week of January 20 1/20/1992 – President Bush declares M. L. King, Jr. birthday national holiday. 1/21/1824 – Osai Tutu Kwamina defeated British at Assamaka, Ashanti. 1/22/1793 – Benjamin Banneker helped plan Washington, DC. 1/23/1977 – First ABC-TV showing of “Roots”. 1/24/1991 – Aids recognized as major health threat to African Americans 1/25/1966 – Constance B. Motley appointed federal judge,
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The late actor and dancer Gregory Hines and legendary singer Marvin Gaye both left indelible marks on the entertainment and music industry respectively and will be recognized with Forever Stamps. To pay homage to their legacies, the U.S. Postal Service announced that the two would be a part of it’s 2019 Forever stamp collection, the Philadelphia Tribune reported. The Gregory Hines will be released January 28,
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929. His religious upbringing in the King home shaped his destiny and thereby shaped the destiny of Black Americans, now and for evermore. He graduated from Morehouse College at the age of nineteen and entered Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. He graduated at the top of his class
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