Debra Darlene Allen was born on January 12, 1960 in Little Rock, Arkansas, to Leonard Allen and Luvenia Allen. She passed away on April 8, 2018.
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Can America forgive itself?
Internal values-versus-external values
Spiritually Speaking: Paul hit the bullseye when the world attacks you, found strength in Christ’s Power
Donald McKayle, a modern dancer and choreographer who brought the Black experience in America to the Broadway stage in musicals such as “Raisin” and “Sophisticated Ladies,” has died. He was 87.
This is when you need a reason to forgive that is bigger than yourself and larger than the wrong you have suffered.
‘His brother’s keeper’
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the former wife of Nelson Mandela and an anti-apartheid figure in her own right, has died at age 81.
Payne, a fervid and fearless Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, columnist and editor for Newsday, who helped pave the way for a generation of Black journalists, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 76.
In the 1950s, Topeka, Kansas, where Linda Brown lived, like a lot of America had dual de facto school systems. One for Black children and one for white children. Black children might be living only a few blocks away from a school but could not attend that school if it was a “white” school. Instead Black children would be shuttled miles away from their neighborhood school to a “Black” school.