By Nick Jacobs If you're lucky enough to have made it into your late seventies, it means you have been given some extra time to reflect, to look back, and hopefully to observe things that occurred in your life that you may be able to share with younger people. The idea is to try to help them ...
The third of three parts. By Kent James The Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack changed the existing dynamic in Israel, where the Israeli government had been gradually eliminating the possibility of a Palestinian state. The continuous construction of Israeli settlements on land that would ...
By Car'Liyah Walden First-place high school essay The pain African American women have experienced because of racism in the healthcare industry is unbelievable. Women of color have had to second guess whether they were getting adequate care for centuries because of the racism that plagues our ...
Celebrate Black achievements year-round By Janhavi Bhadane First place, middle school essay Black History Month was created to recognize African Americans’ contributions to the United States. Carter G. Woodson, the founder of the establishment, had many reasons as to why there should be ...
Washington Health System Teen Outreach held its 14th Black History Month Essay Contest. Winners of the contest, sponsored by Washington Health System, read their essays at Art Night on Feb. 22 at the Common Ground Teen Center in Washington. The top three are published each February in the ...
By Aujalae Lyle First-place cyberschool essay Black history should be respected all year round. How come one of humanity’s most pressing issues receives a month, let alone the shortest? Slavery began in 1619, in 1865, the 13th Amendment abolished it. That’s over 400 years that my ...
