Hearts On Fire
Valentine – take heart. It may be the shortest month of the year, the only one that can pass without a full moon (next time 2018) but right in the middle we get to indulge the impulse of romantic love. And for the month of February we officially pay homage to the accomplishments of black men and women under the banner of Black History month. But wait! Neither love nor equality should be restricted to a single month. Can the heart handle only so much? Should we confine to 28 or 29 days our admiration for the youngest African American to win a Nobel Prize for Peace (1964) Martin Luther King, Jr., or for the first black woman to win a Nobel Prize for Literature (1993) Toni Morrison, or the first black President of the US, Barack Obama who won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2009? Nobel Laureates leave a legacy for their outstanding achievements to humanity, their contributions “to benefit mankind” for all time. Read More »