By Stacey Patton
With less than 24 hours to mobilize, a boisterous throng of nearly 1,000 protestors and civil rights activists held the first in a planned series of city-wide demonstrations to condemn the New York Post for publishing a violent and racially offensive cartoon about President Barack Obama.

By The Editors
J. Max Bond Jr., a groundbreaking architect renowned in New York City and throughout the country, passed away Wednesday, February 18, in Manhattan.

By Lee A. Daniels
What twisted emotion would compel New York Post cartoonist – to use a respectable word – Sean Delonas to connect the horrible tragedy of an enraged chimpanzee attacking a woman in Connecticut and then being shot dead by local police to President Obama’s sponsorship of the Stimulus Bill?

By Mel Gararin
President Barack Obama signed the $787 Billion Stimulus package that aims to jumpstart our flailing economy. While the details of the Stimulus bill are still emerging, there is one thing that is clear-the American people are hurting and there are high hopes that this package can ease the pain.

By Stacey Patton
African-American history has allowed both blacks, whites, and other groups to come to know themselves in a more nuanced and truthful way even amidst denial. And yet, there are writers, some of them African American, calling for black history to fade to black – no pun intended – for good.

By Stacey Patton
“Oil Made Pickaninny Rich – Oklahoma Girl With $15,000 A Month Gets Many Proposals – Four White Men in Germany Want to Marry the Negro Child That They Might Share Her Fortune,” which appeared in The Kansas City Star on January 15, 1914, was just the first of many newspaper and magazine headlines during the next decade about Sarah Rector, the richest black child known to the world in that era.

By The Editors
“Child poverty and neglect, racial disparities in systems that serve children, and the pipeline to prison, are not acts of God. They are America’s immoral political and economic choices that can and must be changed with strong political, corporate and community leadership,” says Marian Wright Edelman.

El-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Malcolm X), American black nationalist, is assassinated at a Harlem mosque.

Nina Simone born in Tryon, North Carolina.

Four Saints in Three Acts, by Virgil Thompson and Gertrude Stein, premieres as the first black-performed opera on Broadway.