By Dr. Maulana Karenga Author’s Note: This is my standard article in celebration of Black History Month II: Women Focus. This is the month for celebrating the miracles and wonders we call Black women, that other half of our community which makes us, as a people, whole, these equal and most worthy partners in life, ...

by Dianne Anderson Even before she could fully grasp the urgency of social justice, Joan Powell was always in tow as a little girl with her devout NAACP parents running off to meetings, rallies and the great Martin Luther King March on Washington. But it is in hearing all the familiar stories of discrimination that ...