The Big Ten Conference celebrates Black History Month

We are not aware how other athletic conferences are celebrating Black History Month in February, but we are aware of the Big Ten Conference per a press release dated February 1, 2010.

One of the distinguished group of athletes spotlighted will be Wisconsin's Robin Threatt-Elliott, who was a local product of Cedar Rapids.

The Black History Month website also features stories on the conference's first African-American student-athlete--Moses "Fleetwood" Walker--and arguably the most famous track and field athlete of all-time in Jesse Owens. The website also includes archived stories on student-athletes previously recognized on the Big Ten's Black History Month website. In addition, the site features information on the Big Ten's contributions through the Advisory Commission, the SCORE (Success Comes Out of Reading Everyday) program and the C.D. Henry internship.

Who Is My Neighbor

It's Febuary 2010, so we thought we would recommend a book to our followers of our Blog

Social Networking can allow for various paths to cross. Recently an author asked to be my friend on Facebook. We had a mutual friend, so I went ahead and friend ed the person.

The person is author Katie McCabe, who has co-written a book with Dovey Johnson Roundtree.

Justice Older than the Law: the Life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree

by Katie McCabe and Dovey Johnson Roundtree
Winner, 2009 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize,

Association of Black Women Historians.

Highlights of the book on The Life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree:

• She led the charge for justice in the segregated courthouses of the Nation's Capital.
• She shattered Jim Crow in interstate travel with a landmark bus desegregation case.
• She changed the racial face of the Army during World War II.
• She became the legal voice for Washington's black poor and a mentor to two generations of African American attorneys who followed her into the courtroom.

"It is on the shoulders of people like Dovey Johnson Roundtree that we stand
today," the First Lady said, "and it is with her commitment to our core ideals
that we will continue moving toward a better tomorrow." ~ First Lady
Michelle Obama

Who Is My Neighbor