black history Archives

Figures of Speech: Bessie Coleman

Every year, the country tends to celebrate the same historical figures.They are the civil rights leaders, abolitionists and contributors to society whose faces we see on calendars and postage stamps. These same figures resurface annually when we commemorate those who have transformed America and quite frankly, they deserve all of their accolades, and then some. […]

Mar 8 2023 by Hunter Ellis in Figures of Speech

Figures of Speech: Albert Murray

Albert Murray was one of the last surviving links to a period of flowering creativity and spreading ferment among the Black intelligentsia in postwar America. He made his mark during a time when the growing force of the civil rights movement gave rise to new bodies of thought about Black identity, political power and the […]

Mar 1 2023 by The Otherwise Team in Figures of Speech

Figures of Speech: Gordon Parks

“I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.” There is perhaps no individual who conveys the power and prose of photography more than Gordon Parks. One of the iconic photographers of the twentieth […]

Feb 22 2023 by The Otherwise Team in Figures of Speech

Fritz Pollard, An All-American Legacy

Every Black History Month, the country tends to celebrate the same manifold of historical figures. They are the civil rights leaders and abolitionists whose faces we see on calendars and postage stamps. These figures resurface each February when we commemorate African-Americans who have transformed America and quite frankly, they deserve all of their accolades, and […]

Feb 7 2023 by The Otherwise Team in Figures of Speech