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A Slaveholder Lie Still Circulates In 21st Century America

Posted on August 21, 2011 by Steve Simms

Slaveholder propaganda is still circulating in America in the 21st Century, even in the black community. Here are three examples: 1) A few years ago a black man I had never met stopped his beautiful pick-up truck beside me as … Continue reading →

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How A White Guy Experienced Jim Crow As A Black Guy

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Steve Simms

Black Like Me is the story of how John Howard Griffin, a white man, colored his skin black and traveled around the segregated, Jim Crow South in the late 1950s. The cover reads: “What was it like, really like to be … Continue reading →

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Observations From Reading Quotation Books

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Steve Simms

“Most collectors collect tangibles. As a quotation collector, I collect wisdom, life, invisible beauty, souls alive in ink . . . I swim across a sea of quotes, splashing in the words and riding the waves of wisdom. ” ~Terri Guillemets … Continue reading →

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America’s Forgotten Freedom Fighters

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Steve Simms

The new PBS series, The Abolitionists, features five forgotten American freedom fighters — William Lloyd Garrison, Angelina Grimke, Frederick Douglas, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Brown (more about Brown in the 3rd paragraph from the end of this article). How … Continue reading →

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Some Americans Suffered An Atrosity

Posted on April 16, 2011 by Steve Simms

I once stood in a small cemetery where a little known group of American hostages are buried. There are no tombstones, only a flat rock placed on each grave—no names to identify these Americans who suffered tremendous indignities and deprivations as … Continue reading →

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Why Was The Army In Little Rock, AR In 1957?

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Steve Simms

In 1957 I was a six-year-old in Little Rock, Arkansas. I had a lot of company there as members of the Army’s 101st Airborne Division joined us in the city. At the time I didn’t really understand what was going on; … Continue reading →

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Leader Of A World Wide Revival, William J. Seymour — My 3rd Greatest American

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Steve Simms

William J. Seymour is my third greatest American of all time. He was born in 1870 in Centerville, Louisiana to former slaves. He grew up in the midst of poverty and racism and had little education — although he did … Continue reading →

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What Skin Color Is Your Church?

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Steve Simms

Here is a question for you: What skin color is your church? Should churches that represent Heaven and all of its glorious human diversity (people from “every kindred and every tribe”) be able to be identified by the prominent skin … Continue reading →

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Why A White Guy Digs Into Black History

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Steve Simms

Every month is black history month to me. I dig into all the black history I can find. When I tell people that I am into reading and studying black history they usually look at me with a puzzled look … Continue reading →

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