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A Matter of Black and White

Image by dogsy via Flickr Think of these names – Abraham Lincoln, Jesse Owens, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammed Ali, Arthur Ashe and Barack Obama. What do they mean to you? Great sports people, politicians and public speakers/activists? Or people who, with others, fought to offer black people better opportunities and rights and encourage integration and equality? So why are the messages still not getting through? According to a survey by Lattimer Communications, as many as 86% African-American…read more