On Thursday, Feb. 4th, Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Whalum Jr. attended the 58th National Prayer Breakfast with President and Mrs. Barack Obama in the International Ballroom of the Hilton Washington Hotel in our nation’s capital.
On Feb. 1, 1960, four students from North Carolina A&T University initiated a successful effort to desegregate the lunch counter at the downtown Woolworth’s store. Although the four college students are hailed for taking a seat in order to stand up for their rights, it is important to remember that they were not alone.
Sagging pants on young men, shaky finances, unstable and toxic relationships, illiterate teens (and parents), deceitful politicians, weak men, irrational women, failed institutions, and a hundred other social illnesses plague the African-American community in 2010.