Saturday, December 24, 2016

Spared from demolition, 1920s Savannah black schoolhouse being saved

SAVANNAH, Ga. | A one-room schoolhouse built in the 1920s to teach black children on St. Simons Island is making a comeback from years of rot and neglect.

Preservationists saved the Harrington School from scheduled demolition in 2010 and since then have spent about $300,000 to stabilize its deteriorating frame and leaky roof. Recently, the group Friends of the Harrington School announced a grant award that it hopes will bring in $50,000 needed to finish restoring the schoolhouse’s interior.

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Thursday, December 22, 2016

Mississippi church member charged in 'Vote Trump' arson

I was always suspicious about a Trump supporter being behind the arson case involving Hopewell Baptist Church in Greenville Mississippi. The immediate red flag that went up was not that the suspect painted Vote Trump on the side of the church, it was that they spelled it right. George L. Cook III AfricanAmericanReports.Com Watch more on this story below.

Andrew McClinton, a parishioner of at Hopewell Baptist Church in Greenville Mississippi was arrested Wednesday and charged with intentionally setting fire last month to a Mississippi church, which was also vandalized with the words "Vote Trump."

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Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Denzel Washington discusses bringing "Fences" to the big screen



Denzel Washington sat down with 60 minutes correspondent Bill Whitaker and had a interesting discussion about bringing August Wilson's play Fences to the big screen. Watch that interview below.




To those who ask what has President Obama done for African Americans

As we near the end of President Obama's second term there are many compliments and accolades being given to the first black president. There are also those who criticize him for not doing enough for black people. Here is my response to those individuals.

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Michelle Obama makes it quite clear that she will not run for office

During a CBS interview with Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama made it quite clear to those of us holding out hope that she would ever run for office that that's not going to happen. Watch her statement below.