Safety & Security in America
Americans should be able to do everyday grocery shopping without the need to fear for their lives. No person in a free country should live in fear that at any moment their skin color could make them a target. Innocent children ought not lose their lives, become victims of or witness tragedy while learning in […]
True Reformers Bank
The Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers in Richmond, Virginia was the first bank owned by African Americans in the United States. It was founded on March 2, 1888 by Reverend William Washington Browne and opened on April 3, 1889. Although the True Reformers bank was the first black-owned bank […]
Robert Sengstacke Abbott
Born on December 24, 1870 to formerly enslaved parents in St. Simons, Georgia, Robert Sengstacke Abbott attended Hampton Institute in Virginia and then went on to graduate from Kent Law School (now Chicago-Kent College of Law in Illinois) in 1899. In May 1905 he started publishing the Chicago Defender. In the early years he personally […]