Black History Month

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

-Malcolm X

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.
-Huey P. Newton

Truth is powerful and it prevails.
-Sojourner Truth

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
-Miles Davis

Each person must live their life as a model for others.
-Rosa Parks

I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.
-Spike Lee

I got my start by giving myself a start

-Madam C.J. Walker

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
-Barack Obama

Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

-Langston Hughes 

On November 14, 1960 Ruby Bridges was one of the first Black students to participate in the integration of the New Orleans school system at William Frantz Elementary School. When she walked into the building, parents began taking their children out of the school. Teachers refused to teach while a Black child was enrolled, so teacher Barbara Henry was brought in from Boston to teach little Ruby, alone, for over a year. Due to constant threats by students, parents, and faculty alike President Eisenhower had no choice but to dispatch Federal Marshals to ensure her safety. Here she is seen exiting the building with those three marshals. An undoubtedly powerful picture.