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Cherish the Day star captivated audiences with unforgettable roles in  The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, The Women of Brewster Place,  Fried Green Tomatoes, How to Get Away With Murder and more. During the '60s, Tyson became the first Black person to star in a primetime drama with her role in the series  East Side/West Side, and the first Black actress on the soap opera Guiding Light.  Sounder, Tyson became the first Black actress to receive an honorary Academy Award.    Getty Images/Bettmann A former beauty queen from Orange, N.J., Fisher rose to fame playing secretary Peg...

On November 2, 2016, a week before the US Presidential elections of Nov. 8, 2016, Wole Soyinka, Africa’s first Nobel Laureate in Literature told a group of students at Oxford University’s Eretgun House that if Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, he would leave the United States and cut his green card into pieces. The Green Card is a permanent residence permit that allows you to live and work in the United States. For more than 20 years, Professor Wole Soyinka had lived in the United States teaching in many universities including Harvard, and the New York University’...

Trump And Wole Soyinka’s Green Card By Reuben Abati On November 2, 2016, a week before the US Presidential elections of Nov. 8, 2016, Wole Soyinka, Africa’s first Nobel Laureate in Literature told a group of students at Oxford University’s Eretgun House that if Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, he would leave the United States and cut his green card into pieces. by Reuben Abati Jan 19, 2021 On November 2, 2016, a week before the US Presidential elections of Nov. 8, 2016, Wole Soyinka, Africa’s first Nobel Laureate in Literature told a group of students at Oxford...

Episode 5 Guest: Jim Wallis Reverend Jim Wallis, is the Founder, President, and Editor-In-Chief of Sojourners, and is the author of twelve books, including “America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege and the Bridge to a New America.” Rev. Wallis says this moment and movement has brought into sharper focus America’s long history of systemic racism.  “I have never heard the phrase ‘America’s Original Sin’ spoken more than I have in the last two months,” says Wallis of his book written in 2015. Discussion Points: How George Floyd’s death sparked a reckoning of...