TRYING IT AGAIN!! (May have been "user error!!!!!" LOL
Sister Mel, that was quite an introduction!!! Impressive.
This is my first post, so bear with me if I don't quite fit the format here.
By way of introduction:
Native New Yorker - African in America
Slightly active in Civil Rights - picketing, etc. in high school
Attended Howard University and graduated in 1966
Married college sweetheart
US Air Force and found that Air Power and Black Power do NOT mix
"Taught" a Black History class at McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary (Visiting Prof, though!!!) My 'students' educated me!! Ever grateful, Ron Ben jar, Leo 10X, Pep and others!!
Graduate school at Cornell University (1970-72) - in the aftermath of the armed student takeover of the Student Union bldg
Protested murder of Brothers at Attica State Prison
Co-led Operation: STOP - the student-faculty divestment organization - to persuade Cornell to sell its Gulf Oil stock; succeeded in doing so.
Returned to Howard to work in Student Affairs - 32 years, including 14 years as Dean for Residence Life (student housing)
Active with African Liberation Support Committee and Ujamaa Shule and Watoto Shule
Former Member of the All African Peoples Revolutionary Party
Retired from Howard U in 2004
Relocated to the highlands of the Republic of Panama
Conducted Family Heritage research and discovered AMAZING info about my maternal great grandmother Mariah Otey Reddick
Was inspired to write a historical novel inspired by her life. My wife Ife, a twice-published fiction writer, is Contributing Author
Finishing the first true "First Draft" and now seeking an Editor
Glad to be here and to meet all of you. Sisters and Brothers!!
Damani