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THE AFTER... ?
THE AFTER... ? Ivan Butcher II The BLACK-OUT DAY of JULY 7, 2020! When you look at our conditions here, World-wide, I feel like I am (we as a Family are) living in a "Dog Day Afternoon," episod
A Black History Fact: UNITY IS PROGRESS
In 1975, Ivan Butcher II, Harlem-born artist, designed and copyrighted, The Black Evolutionary American Flag, with the Library of Congress. With the approaching 1976 Bicentennial celebrations, Butc
Denial is Contrary to Self-Preservation!
I understand too well, why White America (European Descendants) would be on the defensive about the issues of now and in the past regarding race relationship with Black Americans. Considering the
My Reflection: I Am My Words
My Reflection: I Am My Words  Book 2 - A Work in Progress… My Reflection: I am My Words …. is my responses to the concerns, the questions, conceptions and misconceptions to my perspective
Solider Crab Housing
As a youth, I was told by my grandfather to always try to make a positive out of a negative situation. The Negative feelings being expressed concerning the influx of new residents, and that they a
I Am, "The Spook That Sat In Their Classrooms"
My grades would never reflect my Over-standing. I was branded as an average, not working up to my potential student. To be their "A" student, meant that you had conform and that you understoo
Why Is Everything Black With You?
This question reminded me of a conversation I had in one of my art classes, after a bi-racial student asked me, why everything was Black with me. As always in my art classes, we discussed all topics o
Reparations: By the Book Arbitrator and Decision Maker
Based on Judge Judy's by the book, common sense verdicts, in the civil cases presented to her, I fully approve of her presiding over Reparations and Discriminatory Cases filed against the Incorporated
Then!
Gil Noble, Host of Pioneering TV Show " Like It Is", Focusing on Black Issues Little known Black History Fact: In 1975, I met with Mr. Gil Noble to discuss the merits of the "The Black American
Share-Cropping: Today's Economic System
"The more things change, the things remain the same." We are and have been living under the same post slavery share-cropping system that the unjustly enslaved people of the Americas were subjected
Underinsured!!!
This has been the most incomprehensible statement, I have heard during this hurricane recovery period. What seems apparent is that there are many who do not realize that having insurance or not, insu