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VAntage Point Contrasting lives: WWI Black Veterans Everett Johnson and Robert Chase This is the third installment in a three-part series on the officers and men of the 349 th Field Artillery Regiment in World War I. These blog posts profile the World War I service and post-war experiences of three Veterans of the 92 nd Division’s 349 th Field Artillery Regiment, one of the Army’s first predominately African-American units. Alabaman and Colonel Dan T. Moore was its reluctant white commander. First Lieutenant Everett Johnson, a black officer, commanded Battery E, and Sergeant Robert Samue...

℘℘℘ During summertime in cities and towns across the U.S., movies are screened outdoors. Scheduled for showing during the summer of 2016 at New York City’s Bryant Park Film Festival was a 1950 Academy Award-winning comedy based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning play – Harvey, starring James Stewart in what was said to be his favorite role. The film is popular on DVD and is often aired on cable’s Turner Classic Movies station. The play is one of the most frequently produced by amateurs and professional players in the history of the American theater. It has been published in nearly every ...

ERIKA FRANCO/THE STATESMAN Of Stony Brook University’s 64 named buildings and spaces, only four Black historical figures — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, Jimi Hendrix, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman — are memorialized, according to a list compiled by the university’s archivist. As sociology professor Dr. Crystal Fleming explains, Stony Brook University’s lack of Black memorialization shows a much deeper insight into racial inequality on campus. “When we look at the underrepresentation of not just Black people but indigenous people from the highest positions of leadership and the...

Incarcerated Organizer Airlifted to Hospital Following Attack by Prison Guards The beatings follow a lawsuit by the Justice Department against the prison for failing to provide adequate protection from violence. Easylight / iStock / Getty Images Plus By Tensions were higher than usual at Donaldson Correctional Facility in Alabama early on the morning of January 30. A couple of days prior, guards had attacked and choked an elderly incarcerated man, Cat Diamond, in the cafeteria under the reportedly false pretense that he had gotten in line for a second meal. That morning, Robert Earl Council,...

Dr. Robert W. Chase: Mine it and make it in America Robert Chase, Marrietta College Even as a big shift to electric vehicles (EVs) becomes a looming reality, it must be acknowledged that the road to a clean energy future begins in Washington. The production of EVs can lift the nation’s economy and play an essential role in decarbonization. That’s why encouraging the transition to EVs and their production in the U.S. should be an energy policy priority for the Biden administration and new Congress. President Biden’s new executive order to move the federal vehicle fleet – some 650,000 c...