We are beyond the excuse of “Ignorance” when it comes to Black history The month of February is the special time of the year that America celebrates the vast achievements of the African American...

I was 18 years old when Michael Brown was murdered by a police officer in Ferguson, MO, in 2014. So was Michael Brown. A month earlier in New York, 44-year-old Eric Garner died from a police chokehold...

You’ve either said it or you have heard it – “Sunday is the most segregated day of the week.” And in the 21st century in the wake of all the civil unrest and racial injustices, there is an all-out...

The more informed people are about a topic the more likely they are to make sound decisions. That is what John Nowlin, a lifelong resident of Montgomery County, always has believed. Nowlin, 77, says the most...

The invasion of America by the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the American landscape in ways never expected. The more than 150,000 deaths throughout America have been devastating for families where a father,...

My view of these two movements (Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter) is shaped by life experience.  I grew up in majority Norwegian ethnic farming community in Minnesota.  In 1961, I traveled...