Author: Alexandra Linsday

Lately, I’ve found myself thinking a lot of that scene in the 2016 Star Wars spinoff “Rogue One” when rebel fighters Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor head to the planet of Scarif to steal the plans for the Death Star . The blueprints are stored high up in an ominously dark tower guarded by trigger-happy Stormtroopers under the leadership of a snarly Empire commander. The data tower, it becomes clear – through the incessantly repetitive ominous music, the dimmed lighting and the firepower used to defend it – is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. A key pillar to the Empire’s power. Holding vital…

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The Arkansas Negro Business Men’s League was created by prominent Black business and professional leaders at a meeting in Little Rock on Dec. 31, 1902-Jan 1, 1903. The state organization grew out of the National Negro Business League, created in 1900 and headed by Booker T. Washington, principal of Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute and one of the most prominent spokesmen for Black communities at the time.Read More

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