This must be a shock for all concerned: Genealogists have found that civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton is a descendent of a slave owned by relatives of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond, a newspaper reported Sunday. The newspaper reporting the information is The New York Daily News, which hired Ancestry.com to do the … Continue reading Thurmond’s family owned Sharpton’s
Day: February 25, 2007
The local state of Black America
Interesting article in today's Virginian-Pilot in which local black executives are interviewed. Some highlights: Still, relatively few blacks sit on the highest rungs of most local companies: Two of Norfolk Southern's 24 vice presidents - Wimbush and Terry Evans - are black. At Northrop Grumman Newport News shipbuilding, one of 16 vice presidents - Veasey … Continue reading The local state of Black America
The Pulpit Speaks: July 21, 1956
An article written by my father, the Rev. C. Thomas Paige, as it appeared in the Tri-State Defender on the date shown. And now continuing our theme, "Facing up to life," we find ourselves dealing with another one of the sayings commonly known as the beatitudes. This one reads: "Blessed are the meek, for they … Continue reading The Pulpit Speaks: July 21, 1956
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