Frederick Douglass delivered his historic speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” in 1852, calling out the hypocrisy of the holiday designated to celebrate America’s freedom. For some of us, this message still resonates today. So with the long weekend coming up, Capital B Atlanta rounded up some super Black events to […]
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What Father’s Day Is Like When You’ve Lost Your Son
On the first Father’s Day since losing his 17-year-old son, Kenneth Collier Sr. said he plans to surround himself with family and love on what he knows will be a difficult day. “Kenn’s mom was murdered when he was 10, so after that I was raising him as a single dad,” Collier said about his […]
