Valentines Day

With a couple days left, everyone is looking for the perfect gift to buy, to show how they feel about their significant other. While others are looking for cupid to work his magic, and strike them with a dosage of love. Valentines Day was a holiday dating back to the early Christians 496 AD. I believe that Valentines Day is a holiday that is a consumer's holiday, because it focuses on the materialistic aspect of love, instead of the feeling and thought that goes into loving someone. Yes, it’s important to buy gifts, to show how you feel about your lover, but to me it’s the icing on the cake, because love is not based solely on that. It’s the feeling and joy one gets when their around someone. Its something that gifts can't put into words. Why dedicate one day to love, when love should be expressed on a periodic basis. Remember the love is based on feelings and emotions, and that is something that the most expensive can never replace. In my opinion, Valentines Day is a day for the consumer to capitalize on the lonely hearted, who is looking for someone to love them.

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Through My Blurry Eyes(Dedicated to my childhood friends)R.I.P

Through my blurry eyes, I seen death, poverty, violence,

I've seen youths confused, doing what they have to do, with nothing to lose,

I've seen things that will make you want to quiver

I've also seen the treasure, that would make your body want to shiver,

I've seen the possibilties, that can lead to sanity,

I've seen the desperation, that can lead to uncertainty,

I've seen the doubt, the pain, emotions intertwine, that can lead to confussion,

I've seen the hate, the angar, if they can only channel it, and spark a revolution,

In my quest to live a complete life, I hope I live half as twice,

because If I continue to witness this, it would be difficult for my soul to exist.

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was one of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement, which fought to end slavery within the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War.
A brilliant speaker, Douglass was asked by the American Anti-Slavery Society to engage in a tour of lectures, and so became recognized as one of America's first great black speakers. He won world fame when his autobiography was publicized in 1845Two years later he bagan publishing an antislavery paper called the North Star.

Douglass served as an adviser to President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and fought for the adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights and other civil liberties for blacks. Douglass provided a powerful voice for human rights during this period of American history and is still revered today for his contributions against racial injustice.

The wink of an eye

Reputations can kill,

The wind blows mightily at will,

Pain can bring tears to ones eyes,

Anger can rupture ones entire insides,

Fear can bring uncertainty,

But a mended heart, brings stability,

A confused mind, can lead one astray,

But a confident person, always pave the way,

The moon shines, and brings light to the night,

But a wise person, knows wrong and right,

The significance of a smile, can capture ones sight,

But a wink of an eye, can send shivers to ones spine.

The Origin Of Black History Month

Febuary is Black History Month
In 1915, Dr. Carter G. Woodson and Rev. Jesse E. Moorland co-founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). Their goal was to research and bring awareness to the largely ignored, yet crucial role black people played in American and world history. The following year, Woodson published and distributed his findings in The Journal of Negro History. He founded the publication with the hope that it would dispel popular mistruths. He also hoped to educate black people about their cultural background and instill them with a sense of pride in their race.

The son of former slaves and the second black person to receive a degree from Harvard University, Carter Woodson understood the value of education. He also felt the importance of preserving one's heritage and, upon his urgings, the fraternity Omega Psi Phi created Negro History and Literature Week in 1920. In 1926, Woodson changed the name to Negro History Week. He selected the month of February for the celebration as a way to honor of the birth of two men whose actions drastically altered the future of black Americans. Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. President who issued the Emancipation Proclamation was born on February 12th and Frederick Douglass, one of the nation's leading abolitionists was born on February 14th.

Woodson and the ANSLH provided learning materials to teachers, black history clubs and the community at large. They also published photographs that depicted important figures in black culture, plays that dramatized black history, and reading materials.

Dr. Carter G. Woodson died in 1950, but his legacy continued on as the celebration of Negro History Week was adopted by cities and organizations across the country. This observance proved especially important during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, a time when the inhumane and unequal treatment of black people in America was being challenged and overturned.


The Black Power Movement of the 1970s emphasized racial pride and the significance of collective cultural values. This prompted the ASNLH, now called the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, to change Negro History Week to Black History Week. In 1976, they extended the week to a month-long observance.

Black History Month is now recognized and widely celebrated by the entire nation on both a scholarly and commercial level. The Association for the Study of African American Life and History continues to promote, preserve and research black history and culture year-round.