February 2, 2022

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A HAUNTING Voice From the Past…Fountain Hughes

  Hey Folks! This blog post is for you. I hope you’re having a great day and are ready to learn something about and listen to the voices of African American men who worked to build this country up and have never been shown any appreciation.  Throughout history, thousands of men and women desire to be talked about and shown some acknowledgment. People like Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Barack Obama have been written about and talked about...

Sojouner Truth

Sojourner Truth…Is What They Call Her 2

Sojourner Truth  They called her Sojourner Truth, but in actuality, her name was Isabella Baumfree. She was born in 1797 in Ulster County, New York, to James and Elizabethan Baumfree. Along with her parents, she spent her life on the Johannesburg estate as a slave. Dutch was her first language since Dutch people enslaved her. Despite everything, when she turned nine years old, she was sold away from her family to a man near Kingston, New York, named John Neely;...