SPEAKING OUT WEEKLY NEWS — I can’t say that I am surprised by the situation in general, because except for February we (including me) generally don’t spend a great deal of time discussing our history and sharing our culture, other than - say our food, music, art, sports, and sense of style. As a result, we leave an incomplete picture of Black history and culture for our children and our children’s children. Think of the great William Hooper Councill, a one-time slave who founded what is now presently Alabama A&M University in 1875. Mr. Councill remains one of a few African Americans with a portrait hanging in the Alabama Archives in Montgomery.
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