DAILY PHOTO: Mother and Son, 1975. The little boy in this picture paid tribute to his mom recently when he posted this photo on a social network. Sadly, she died from COVID19 on May 8, 2020. I contacted him (Millwood798) and requested permission to share the picture....
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. (My Lord) I have a dream today. --Martin Luther King, Jr., August 28, 1963 How many people are in...
My girl, did you not know that you and I almost weren’t? We come from a long line of warriors who didn’t make it. Those warriors battled long and hard, war after war. But though they may have been physically battered and bloodied and left for dead, oh my goodness,...
Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and a great excuse to look back on some of the first protests of Generation X, including the first time Gen-Xers marched in Washington. The year was 1972 and the event was called the Children's March for Survival. Today's Daily...
The following pictures of Generation X in 1970s Chicago were part of the Documerica series sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Series. Creative Commons License applies. Which picture do you like the best? I love the one of the boy coming out of the walk-up...
Through a dry and thirsty land, water from the Kenyon heights Pours itself out of Lake Sangra's broken heart There in the Sahara winds Jesus heard the whole world cry For the healing that would flow from His own scars... Rich Mullins, My Deliverer, 1998 In the early...
The Children's March For Survival, 1972 On March 25, 1972, 30,000 people, most of them African-American school children, gathered on the streets of Washington D.C. to protest welfare reforms. The protest was called the Children's March for Survival. The kids...
At night in dreams he sees their souls rise Like dark geese into the Oklahoma skies Well this is a prayer for the souls of the departed --Springsteen Down an old dirt road in Okfuskee County is a gravel turn-out that bends in a half circle right by a stand of trees....
Lynching of Laura Nelson, L.D. Nelson in Oklahoma In 1911, an Oklahoma mob lynched Laura Nelson, 35, and her 13-year-old son Lawrence over the Old Schoolton Bridge at Yarbrough's Crossing west of Okemah. Images of the tragedy were taken and later, brazenly sold as...
Nick DeWolf Selfie, 1958 In 1958, a computer pioneer and physicist named Nick DeWolf took a selfie while sitting in a Barber shop in Wakefield, Massachusetts. He was 30-years-old, and already way ahead of his time. It was 2008 when I discovered Nick while looking for...
I was stopped at a train and saw this awful thing go by. I was just sitting there and decided to take pictures of the graffiti whizzing by. Meanwhile, two Black teenagers walked up. I liked the boy's hot pink backpack and clicked a few pictures of him and the girl...
This post features photos from Oklahoma City's MLK Day Parade, 2014, as well as some pictures of a Black History Month celebration. Back in February, I attended a banquet at the Oklahoma History Center in honor of Black History Month. I was happy to capture so...