Dr. Harry Edwards: Black athletes defending Black Studies

Baltimore harbor was our path to freedom

Frederick Douglass and Isaac Myers rival Frances Scott Key in their importance to American history. I describe Black organized labor during my April 6 tour with SEIU 1021

Dr. Harry Edwards from the John Carlos/Tommie Smith statue at San Jose State University

Brandishing his University of Florida championship ring from the men's basketball team, Dr. Harry Edwards presents the moral and intellectual case against the New Black Codes in this special episode of The Promised Land

Dr. Harry Edwards: Black athletes defending Black Studies

Dr. Harry Edwards joins The Promised Land at the statue of John Carlos and Tommie Smith to respond to attacks on the victories he has won for Black Studies and academic excellence as we opened the 48th annual National Council for Black Studies. He describes anxious parents contacting him on where their students won't face persecution for reproductive rights and civil rights and advises athletes to follow in the footsteps of the Olympic Movement for Human Rights. Facing a terminal illness, he notes that he's prepared his final lectures and a history of Black activism in sports. Dr. Edwards begins with his NCAA championship ring from the University of Florida men's basketball team.

Let's practice civil obedience on Black American Day March 5

March to vote in 15 states -- Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia -- in honor of those who marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma and Crispus Attucks, the first to die for the United States and you can have the same impact as the first African-American voters in the 1860s

The Most Important Speech in African-American history

My re-enactment of Rev. Henry Highland Garnet's greatest speeches at 15th Street Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. including Let The Monster Perish (first speech by an African-American in U.S. Capitol); and Let Your Motto Be Resistance, Resistance, Resistance