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We had a tourist from Germany join us today. After the tour, she remained on the bus to share her thoughts on the differ...
17/06/2024

We had a tourist from Germany join us today. After the tour, she remained on the bus to share her thoughts on the difference in races in the US and Germany. We had a great conversation.....I love what I do!







12/06/2024

Good job, Bishop Timothy J. Clarke. The Potters House is smiling this week from your leadership.

Honoring our West High Legend, Dr. Lawrence Carter, a trailblazer in his own right, was appointed as the inaugural Dean ...
10/06/2024

Honoring our West High Legend, Dr. Lawrence Carter, a trailblazer in his own right, was appointed as the inaugural Dean of the Martin Luther King, Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1979. His tenure in this esteemed position remains unparalleled, making him the sole individual to have held this significant role.

Born in Dawson, Georgia, his family moved to Columbus when he was a child, and he was raised on the Hilltop. Following graduation from West in 1960, Carter received a B.A. degree from Virginia University, a degree in theology, and his Ph.D. from Boston University.

Further studies were completed at Andover Newton Theological School, Harvard University, Georgia State University, New York University, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Brown University, Spelman College, George Washington University, and The Ohio State University.

He is a licensed and ordained American Baptist minister and, in 1994, a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil. Carter has also been a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow in 1993 and 1996.

Carter is the author of over 40 published articles in numerous newspapers and professional magazines. Carter has received 47 honors and proclamations, including Faculty Member of the Year in 1985, Leadership Atlanta in 1986-, and six times elected delegate to international religious assemblies.

Carter is Sublime Prince, 32nd Degree of the Prince Hall Masons, and is a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. He is married to Dr. Marva Griffin Carter, who is an Assistant Professor of Music, History, and Literature at Georgia State University.

The Carters are parents of one son, Lawrence Edward Carter, Jr.

Source: https://westhighalumni.com/dr-lawrence-carter-sr-60-educator/

10/06/2024

Today's fashion is like shopping in my grandma's closet. It's plain with neutral colors and granny sandals. I'm glad I like jewelry; it helps.
What do you think about fashion today?

Savannah News contacted us yesterday to capture a story to prepare for Juneteenth. The story aired last night. I'll shar...
10/06/2024

Savannah News contacted us yesterday to capture a story to prepare for Juneteenth. The story aired last night. I'll share the footage once it's released.
Media is my friend regardless of where I am.
, you already know!!
Thank You, WWTOC-TV

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/qJ4kKt6wAEK3mtWd/Join us in Savannah for Juneteenth!!
09/06/2024

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Join us in Savannah for Juneteenth!!

Juneteenth is a celebration for all, and we welcome everyone to join us on this joyous occasion!
Join us for one of the unique tours across the country guided by Author and historian Rita Fuller-Yates. Savannah Black History Tours teach the significance of uplifting and celebrating the black community of Savannah. Rita believes that it's been over a hundred and fifty years since slavery ended, and regardless of race, others need a safe place to learn, acknowledge, and recognize the fruit of labor from passionate black leaders of Savannah. Juneteenth is the perfect holiday to remember, uplift, and celebrate the black community of Savannah.
Join us on the following dates:
June 19th - 1:00 SOLD OUT
June 21st - 1:00 PM
June 22nd - 1:00 PM
June 22nd - 3:00 PM
All are welcome on this journey!!
SBH is a safe place to learn, engage and ask tough questions.
Please visit www.savannahblackhistorytours.com to learn how you can participate.

07/06/2024
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04/06/2024

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Yates Entertainment is giving back to Savannah and sponsoring a free walking history tour on June 19th to celebrate the accomplishments of African Americans of Savannah. This FREE event is open to the public and will include a Victorian picnic lunch.
Each tourist will obtain a ninety-minute tour in the Laurel Grove Cemetery South. The event is limited to the first fifteen people and first come, first serve so please register sooner than later.
www.savannahblackhistorytours.com

Thank You Savannah for preserving American black history, it's because of you, we are able to see our story!!

It was a fantastic day filled with a fun, educational experience that only Savannah Black History Tours can offer!In the...
02/06/2024

It was a fantastic day filled with a fun, educational experience that only Savannah Black History Tours can offer!
In the eight months of doing tours, I have met people worldwide. It's crazy to follow God's orders and see his impact across the country.
Exciting news!
We're not just doing two tours weekly; we're also thrilled to announce a brand-new tour coming this month!
Look at God moving the Little Girl from Long Street's Brand as he promised, meeting people from around the world. I'm so glad God didn't listen to me in the past.
There was an old convo I used to have with him:
Me: God, please have people from Columbus call and participate in a tour. Local black history is essential for people to know; I know they will love it, as everyone has.
Him: Okay, Columbus (I think he was laughing at my limited goals of staying in my hometown). I have something much bigger.
Me: How will it become bigger if people don't participate in my home city? People don't know me anywhere else; how will that work?
Him: Do you trust me when I tell you to do something?
Me: Yes.
Me: In March 2023, I moved to Savannah while the Hubs hired and trained staff for one of our businesses.
I moved most of my personal belongings to Savannah in June 2023, and the hubs joined the movement in July 2023. We currently live in both states and are looking forward to building more city tours.

Won't He do it!!
He will if you allow him to take the wheel.

22/05/2024

A great read:
Hidden’ African Ancestry

Although long suspected, what hasn’t been confirmed until now is how many self-identified “white” women and men are walking around today with recent “hidden” African ancestry in their families—you know, white people who, at least according to the old, notorious “one-drop rule” of the Jim Crow era, would have been considered legally “black.” How many of them don’t know it? How many might sense it but aren’t sure why? And how would they react if they did know? For Southerners, in particular, there are more than just Confederates in the Attic. And the proof and guide is their DNA.

Here’s how Scott Hadly reported Kasia Bryc’s findings on the 23andme website on March 4, 2014: “Bryc found that about 4 percent of whites have at least 1 percent or more of African ancestry, known as “’hidden African ancestry.’”

“Although it is a relatively small percentage,” Hadly continues, “the percentage indicates that an individual with at least 1 percent African ancestry had an African ancestor within the last six generations, or in the last 200 years [meaning since the time of American slavery]. This data also suggests that individuals with mixed parentage at some point were absorbed into the white population,” which is a very polite way of saying that they “passed.”

How many ostensibly “white” Americans walking around today would be classified as “black” under the one-drop rule? Judging by the last U.S. Census (pdf), 7,872,702. To put that in context, that number is equal to roughly 20 percent, or a fifth, of the total number of people identified as African American (pdf) in the same census count!

In other words, there are a lot of white people with “hidden African ancestry,” and they don’t have to look too far back in time to find it. Yet, paradoxically, their families were able to pass for white relatively quickly. Remember, while we live in an all-access tracking society of Google Earth and FAA imaging today, our light-complexioned ancestors didn’t. All they needed to be able to pass was a tank of gas and a new destination. Their jumping-off point was the color line itself.

A Southern Twist

Also fascinating is what Kasia Bryc revealed about the frequency of “hidden African ancestry” on a state-by-state basis. Some of you will be surprised, others will say, of course!

“Southern states with the highest African American populations tended to have the highest percentages of hidden African ancestry,” Hadly writes of Bryc’s findings. "In South Carolina at least 13 percent of self-identified whites have 1 percent or more African ancestry, while in Louisiana the number is a little more than 12 percent. In Georgia and Alabama the number is about 9 percent. The differences perhaps point to different social and cultural histories within the south.”

If we apply those percentages to the last federal census (pdf), that means 487,253, “white” people in Georgia, 385,156 “white” people in South Carolina, 328,186 in Louisiana and 288,396 in Alabama are actually “black,” according to the one-drop rule. And that is a lot of the white people in these states! (It’s also worth noting that the percentage of “hidden blacks” who self-identify as white in South Carolina—13 percent—is the same as the percentage of people nationwide who self-identified as black in the 2010 U.S. Census.)

Turns out, Dixie isn’t just the land of cotton; it’s the land of “hidden African ancestry,” too. And, for the record, the states highlighted in Hadly’s report on Bryc’s research were among the first to secede from the Union before the Civil War; they also had the highest slave populations recorded in the 1860 U.S. Census. As I wrote in this column last month, “In 1860, slaves made up 57 percent of the population in South Carolina, the highest of any state in the union. Coming in second was Mississippi at 55 percent, followed by Louisiana at 47 percent, Alabama at 45 percent, and Florida and Georgia, both at 44 percent. Perhaps not surprisingly, these were the first six states to secede from the Union following Lincoln’s election. While Southern sympathizers denied that slavery was the cause of the Civil War, Lincoln knew better.”

While the data points are fascinating, on a larger scale, Bryc’s DNA research has the potential to round out the more common narrative we have of African Americans (such as first lady Michelle Obama) discovering that they have white roots (and cousins) tracing back to a common slave-owning ancestor. Twenty-four percent of us do, and I’m no exception.

But, really, does any of this matter?

The Truth vs. the ‘One-Drop Rule’

My answer is, yes, of course it matters, because the more we learn about the black, white and browning of our past, the more we can see how absurd, how arbitrary and grotesque the “one-drop rule” that defined the color line in America for decades and decades during its most painful chapters truly was. Back then, a white-enough black woman or man could pass for white; now, with Bryc’s findings, we realize that all along, there was a whole other layer in the color aristocracy that no one could see. And to shop owners, hotel clerks, railroad conductors and federal judges in those times, appearances were what mattered; in our time, thankfully, it is the truth that sets us free.

As a result, I can’t help but wonder how many “hidden” blacks sat at whites-only Woolworth’s lunch counters in the South before the “visible” and brave black students of the early 1960s did so. The same could be said for our nation’s historically white colleges and universities, its movie theaters and hotels, its water-fountains and bathrooms.

We know that in 1892, Homer Plessy could have passed for a white passenger on the Louisiana railroad that led to the constitutional doctrine of “separate but equal” in the Supreme Court. But Plessy spoke up, as did many of what were once known as “voluntary Negroes” (men and women like former NAACP leader Walter White who refused to pass). But how many others remained silent without ever revealing who they were? Would that railroad line have stayed in business, or any business for that matter, if they had tried to enforce the “one-drop rule” down to its very letter in all cases? And were there any who might have hidden inside the white robes of the K*K, knowing they were about to lynch one of their own?

It’s not the historian’s job to engage in counterfactuals, of course, but I do think it’s safe to say that the pseudo-scientific underpinnings of Jim Crow, which provided so much legal justification and comfort for cruelty in the years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement, would have faced a very different challenge in court had DNA science been around.

I embrace the positives in these amazing DNA discoveries—further proof that America is more of a melting pot than we had even assumed, which is why my goal is and remains for every American to trace her or his roots as far back as the paper trail and DNA science will allow. “This is a whole new social arena,” my colleague professor Jennifer Hochschild told the New York Times in a June 2012 story on Michelle Obama’s family tree. “We don’t have an etiquette for this. We don’t have social norms.” While this may be true of white Americans, black Americans have long discussed and written about our mixed-race heritage—plain as the noses on our faces and the hair textures on our heads—and the vexing problem of passing, even within our own families.

America, in the Obama years, is most certainly not “postracial” (whatever that was supposed to mean!) but perhaps it is pan-racial. My hope, in sharing these findings with you, is that those of our white brothers and sisters who discover that they have at least 1 percent of African DNA will be filled with as much joy and pride in their black ancestors as they would be if they found out they were related to the British royal family, or if their original American ancestor arrived on these shores on the Mayflower, rather than on a slave ship.

Arnett Howard and Eddie Nix posing together at a Listen for the Jazz jam session.  Eddie Nix played drums for many bands...
21/05/2024

Arnett Howard and Eddie Nix posing together at a Listen for the Jazz jam session. Eddie Nix played drums for many bands in Columbus, including his band, the Eddie Nix Sextet.
Source: CML: Arnett Howard Collection

19/05/2024

If you CHOOSE to use, abuse, lie, and disrespect the black woman. Your love for the community is questionable.

16/05/2024

Adult Advice:
When someone is growing in themselves, one negative comment can kill the mission. Let's normalize seeing the good in people's missions while they discover the details. IT'S EASY TO SEE WHAT'S WRONG; celebrate the right and watch them continue to shine!

When you see a familiar face while watching Kevi Hart on Netflex. Congratulations Joyce Beatty, you are making it worldw...
15/05/2024

When you see a familiar face while watching Kevi Hart on Netflex. Congratulations Joyce Beatty, you are making it worldwide and I see you.

11/05/2024

May all of my friends enjoy Mother's Day weekend.
I can't wait to share!
I get so excited for Mother's Day.

This newspaper clipping features a photograph of the seven democratic candidates for the May 3, 1955, primaries. The can...
10/05/2024

This newspaper clipping features a photograph of the seven democratic candidates for the May 3, 1955, primaries. The candidates are Judge Henry L. Holden, Walter J. Shapter, Jr., Mayor Sensenbrenner, H. Keith Passmore, Constance C. Nichols, Judge Ralph G. Smith, and Evan P. Ford.

Constance Curtis Nichols was born Constance Jean Curtis in 1907 in Marietta, Ohio. Her father, a barber, pushed for all his children to go to college. Constance originally wanted to go to Marietta College to attend business school but was turned away because they did not admit African Americans then. She ended up at the Ohio State University’s School of Business, graduating in 1931 as the only black woman in her class. While a student, Constance began her civil rights activism, becoming a member of the Inter-Racial Council and organizing for the Democratic Party and the NAACP. After being turned away at a local movie theater, Constance and her companion, Frank Shearer, formed the Vanguard League in 1940. Even after the league disbanded in 1950, Constance remained active in the Columbus chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality, ran for city offices, and wrote about racial inequality. While professionally a businessperson, Constance wrote plays and poems throughout her life, even winning first prize for one of her poems at the State Fair. Constance passed away in March 1989 in Columbus, Ohio.

Constance Curtis Nichols and Frank Shearer formed the Vanguard League in 1940. The group first met at Mrs. Nichols home to discuss possible solutions to problems that the community faced in regard to racial discrimination. The League would file legal lawsuits against businesses that would discriminate against African Americans. They would also regularly schedule “pickets” to petition local companies and organizations that participated in racial discrimination. These lawsuits and petitions continued throughout the 1940s; however, by 1950, the League’s numbers had fallen because many members left to join other organizations, as more formed during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. The spirit of the Vanguard League would remain in the city of Columbus and throughout all of the organizations that the founding members joined.
Source: https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2020/02/27/civil-rights-in-columbus-the-vanguard-league/

Thank you, St. John AME, for your years of service. St. John AME Church HistoryColumbus, OhioIn 1896, the population of ...
09/05/2024

Thank you, St. John AME, for your years of service.

St. John AME Church History

Columbus, Ohio

In 1896, the population of free black people increased in Worthington. Several worked to organize a church for black people. Initially, prayer meetings and worship were held in homes.

A lot was purchased in 1897. The building moved to it and was named Bethel A.M.E. Church. The same year, Bethel A.M.E. was presented to the Ohio Annual Conference for admission.

By 1914, a new church at 682 Plymouth Street was built in Worthington, dedicated, and renamed St. John A.M.E. Church. St. John was on a circuit with Hilliard, Westerville, and Plain City for many years.

In 1969, Negro History Week was celebrated for the first time at St. John under the leadership of Pastor Vance Milligan.

In 1981, Dr. Alice P. Franklin organized the first observance of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday in Worthington; the celebration was held at St. John.

In 1986, the St. John AME Church Foundation was established.

In 1998, the church burnt its mortgage for the property at 682 Plymouth St in Worthington, Ohio.

2003 the Lay Organization was renamed the Nellie B. Russell Lay Organization.

In 2004, the church was relocated to 7700 Crosswords Drive, Columbus, Ohio, under the spiritual leadership of Pastor Hurdie Billingslea, Jr.

In 2005, the Women’s Missionary Society (WMS) name was changed to the Juanita Jones Missionary Society, which provides food pantry support for Wilberforce University.

In 2005 November, Pastor Billingslea retired, and Rev. Dr. Jermaine D. Covington was assigned as Pastor.

Under the leadership of Pastor Covington, the church continued to grow physically and spiritually. The establishment of new ministries and activities including the Youth Ministry, Gospel and Jazz Brunch, Visual and Dramatic Arts, Family & Friends Day, and various outreach programs including foreign missions.

In 2020, the COVID Pandemic resulted in increased use of technology, such as streaming, email, and texts in worship services and communication with the congregation.

In 2021, Pastor Ruth McCants Locke was assigned to pastor St John in the midst of the Pandemic. She quickly enhanced the already active technology ministry and started virtual ministries for the youth. St. John is looking forward to what God will continue to do through Pastor Locke and the church’s leadership as He orders her steps to continue the spiritual and physical growth of St. John A.M.E. Church in the 21st century!

Source: http://www.worthingtonmemory.org/scrapbook/text/linking-past-present

23/04/2024

Live From Huntington Park!
Join us TOMORROW at noon for a live stream of our annual State of the County luncheon featuring a discussion of the future of DEl, community partner recognition, and employee excellence awards.

Tune in on the Board of Commissioner’s page at noon.

As the city of Columbus grows, I suggest increasing black mentorship. While the excitement of early success is undeniabl...
22/04/2024

As the city of Columbus grows, I suggest increasing black mentorship.
While the excitement of early success is undeniable, it's crucial to remember that wisdom often comes with patience, a virtue that can lead to more sustainable and fulfilling achievements.
Based on the experiences of our twenty-something in the past few years, promotion without developed (talking it is not developing it) experience is leading our youth to physical sickness, anxiety, and sometimes murder.
Experienced adults who understand success is not easy; let's work harder to communicate patience to our young adults.
My grandma would always say, "Love sometimes teaches tough lessons."

Photo Source: Columbus Landmarks Foundation teaching high school students the importance of preserving a building.

Columbus Black History Fact:Media Expert Sean Anthony was the first DJ in the nation to play a BOW WOW song. Follow Sean...
22/04/2024

Columbus Black History Fact:
Media Expert Sean Anthony was the first DJ in the nation to play a BOW WOW song. Follow Sean on his podcast during the weekends!
Listen LIVE at MYColumbusMagic.com

Please join me Thursday morning!!Thank you CYP Club Cares for the invite!!
14/04/2024

Please join me Thursday morning!!
Thank you CYP Club Cares for the invite!!

09/04/2024



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