To kick off Black History Month, here’s a quote from W.E.B Du Bois, a scholar, activist and the first African-American to earn a doctorate from Harvard, on what it means to be a soul divided in America.
And on a day when we commemorated both, Barack Obama, the first black president of the United States of America, was sworn into office for a second term. I’m not broadcasting this as breaking news.
Much of the East Coast is still reeling from the infamous Frankenstorm that struck our shores this past October. As its storm-nickname suggests, Hurricane Sandy was a bizarre and indomitable intermixing of atmospheric events.