Mar 1915
Johnson Defends
Jack Johnson defends his heavyweight title while in exile from the United States due to pending charges related to his sexual relationship with a white woman. He loses to his white opponent, Kansas-born Jess Willard. Black boxers will be excluded from title bouts against whites for the next 22 years.
Nov 14, 1915
Washington Dies
Booker T. Washington dies at the age of 59 in his home in Tuskegee, Alabama.
1917
Du Bois Marches
In New York City, W. E. B. Du Bois leads a silent march in protest of Jim Crow laws and lynching crimes.
1918
Virginia Separates Prisons
A Virginia law requires penitentiaries to separate black and white prisoners.
1919
Texas Separates Libraries
A Texas law requires public libraries to maintain separate branches for blacks. Continue reading The Jim Crow Timeline 1915 to 1925 →

1926
Virginia Restricts Public Places
A Virginia law requires public halls, movie theaters, opera houses, and all other places of public entertainment to separate white patrons from black patrons.
1927
Arizona Sets Number
The Arizona legislature requires each district to vote on whether to segregate each high school in which the number of registered black students reaches 25.
1928
Kentucky Restricts Hospitals
A Kentucky law requires white and black patients to be housed in separate hospital facilities.
1930
Oregon Renews Laws
Oregon renews an anti-miscegenation statute first passed in 1866. The law prohibits any white person from marrying or residing with someone of another race.
1932
Tennessee Felonizes
In Tennessee, miscegenation is declared a felony. In addition, the legislature votes to require high schools to segregate students by race. Continue reading The Jim Crow Timeline 1926 to 1935 →

1935
South Carolina Restricts Bus Drivers
A South Carolina law requires school bus drivers to be of the same race as the children they transport.
1936
Virginia Separates Riders
A Virginia law requires all passenger vehicles to separate white riders from black riders. In addition, separate waiting rooms for black patrons must be maintained at bus stations and train depots.
Apr 1936
Gaines Refused
The University Of Missouri School Of Law refuses to admit Lloyd Lionel Gaines, a black college graduate, on account of his race. The state offers Gaines a scholarship to attend a school outside Missouri, but he refuses the funding and files a lawsuit. Although he loses his case, the NAACP will appeal to the Supreme Court two years later.
Jun 22, 1937
Joe Louis Wins
Boxer Joe Louis defeats the reigning heavyweight champion Jimmy Braddock to become the first black athlete to hold the world title since Jack Johnson. Continue reading The Jim Crow Timeline 1935 to 1945 →

1945
Alabama Literacy Law
The Alabama Constitution is amended to state new voting qualifications; electors must demonstrate literacy, must identify and explain any article of the U.S. Constitution, and must prove that they have been employed during the year prior to registration.
Jun 9, 1946
Jack Johnson Dies
Former world heavyweight champion Jack Johnson dies in a car accident near Raleigh, North Carolina.
1947
Arkansas Separates Places
The Arkansas state legislature passes several statutes that mandate segregation at all polling places, in prisons, and on buses and trains.
1947
North Carolina Restricts Cemeteries
A North Carolina law requires state cemeteries to segregate burial plots by race. Continue reading The Jim Crow Timeline 1945 to 1956 →

This is a chronicle of the timeline of denial of access and inhumane treatment that African-American/Blacks had to endure in these United States of America. In spite of all these barriers and dehumanizing acts of terror and injustice committed against African-American/Blacks, we are still STANDING. When God is on your side, survival is a foregone conclusion.

1956
North Carolina Separates Bathrooms
A North Carolina law requires all factories and plants to maintain separate bathrooms for black employees.
1958
Virginia Closes Schools
The Virginia legislature votes to close any school that enrolls both black and white students. Continue reading The Jim Crow Timeline 1956 – 1967 →

It is well known that major powers that are responsible for orchestrating global chaos. By their very deeds, they have proven to be incapable of feeling compassion for poor people suffering. They have created a system of Geopolitical upheaval, mayhem, and pandemonium that benefits a few while murdering and ripping millions of innocent men, women, and children from their families, cultures, lands.

Many leaders in developing countries have been convinced by arms merchants and war mongers that they must fear their neighbors and sometimes even their brothers. Consequently, those leaders end up spending millions of dollars on artilleries, guns, bombs, tanks, warships, fighter jets, and other killing machines while their citizens go un-educated, un-housed and un-fed. Continue reading Orchestrated Chaos →

 WHATEVER IN LIFE

YOU CHOOSE TO DO

MAKE IT WORK

FOR YOU…

WITH THE RIGHT POINT OF VIEW

YOU CAN’T LOSE

MAKE IT WORK

FOR YOU…

NO ONE CAN HELP YOU

UNTIL YOU DO

MAKE IT WORK

FOR YOU…

 REGARDLESS OF ALL THE PAIN

THAT LIFE SOMETIMES PUT

YOU THROUGH

YOU’VE GOT TO

MAKE IT WORK

FOR YOU!

How Big Is

Your World…

If It Is Not

As Big

As The Pain

That’s

Being Felt

Around The

World…

Then, It Is Not

Big Enough…

Continue reading Vote for What’s Morally Right or Vote for Personal Greed →

The Affordable Care Act has provided almost 30 million Americans with “Healthcare Security”. The ACA is truly designed to provide medically inclusion services for the American People! If you are not a millionaire(s) or billionaire(s), the Affordable Care Act will help all Americans families survive both minor and catastrophic health challenges. “Improve ACA, Yes – Appeal ACA, No and this is why!

Listed below are eighteen (18) Key Provisions of Health Reform that have Taken Effect under the Affordable Care Act _ Key Provisions of Health Reform

1) Small Business Tax Credits – Offers tax credits to small businesses to make employee coverage more affordable. Tax credits of up to 35 percent of premiums will be available to firms that choose to offer coverage. (Beginning in 2014, the small business tax credits will cover 50 percent of premiums.)

2) No Discrimination Against Children with Pre-Existing Conditions – Prohibits new health plans in all markets plus grandfathered group health plans from denying coverage to children with pre?existing conditions. (Beginning in 2014, this prohibition would apply to all persons.)

3) Help for Uninsured American with Pre-Existing Conditions until Exchange is Available (Interim High-Risk Pool) – Provides access to affordable insurance for Americans who are uninsured because of a pre?existing condition through a temporary subsidized high-risk pool.

4) Ends Rescissions – Bans insurance companies from dropping people from coverage when they get sick.

5) Begins to Close the Medicare Part D Donut Hole – Provides a $250 rebate to Medicare beneficiaries who hit the donut hole in 2010.. (Beginning in 2011, institutes a 50 percent discount on prescription drugs in the donut hole; also completely closes the donut hole by 2020.)

6) Free Preventive Care under Medicare – Eliminates co?payments for preventive services and exempts preventive services from deductibles under the Medicare program.

7) Extends Coverage for Young People up to 26th Birthday through Parents’ Insurance – Requires new health plans and certain grandfathered plans to allow young people up to their 26th birthday to remain on their parents’ insurance policy, at the parents’ choice. In saying that, health insurance for married couple may be different and will need to be researched to understand this area better.

8) Help for Early Retirees – Creates a temporary re?insurance program (until the Exchanges are available) to help offset the costs of expensive premiums for employers and retirees for health benefits for retirees age 55?64.

9) Bans Lifetime Limits on Coverage – Prohibits health insurance companies from placing lifetime caps on coverage.

10) Bans Restrictive Annual Limits on Coverage – Tightly restricts the use of annual limits to ensure access to needed care in all new plans and grandfathered group health plans. These tight restrictions will be defined by HHS. (Beginning in 2014, the use of any annual limits would be prohibited for all new plans and grandfathered group health plans.)

11) Free Preventive Care under New Private Plans – Requires new private plans to cover preventive services with no co?payments and with preventive services being exempt from deductibles.

12) New, Independent Appeals Process – Ensures consumers in new plans have access to an effective internal and external appeals process to appeal decisions by their health insurance plan.

13) Ensures Value for Premium Payments – Requires plans in the individual and small group market to spend 80 percent of premium dollars on medical services, and plans in the large group market to spend 85 percent. Insurers that do not meet these thresholds must provide rebates to policyholders.

14) Community Health Centers – Increases funding for Community Health Centers to allow for nearly a doubling of the number of patients seen by the centers over the next 5 years..

15) Increases the Number of Primary Care Practitioners – Provides new investments to increase the number of primary care practitioners, including doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants.

16) Prohibits Discrimination Based on Salary – Prohibits new group health plans from establishing any eligibility rules for health care coverage that have the effect of discriminating in favor of higher wage employees.

17) Health Insurance Consumer Information – Provides aid to states in establishing offices of health insurance consumer assistance in order to help individuals with the filing of complaints and appeals.

18) Holds Insurance Companies Accountable for Unreasonable Rate Hikes – Creates a grant program to support States in requiring health insurance companies to submit justification for all requested premium increases, and insurance companies with excessive or unjustified premium exchanges may not be able to participate in the new Health Insurance Exchanges.

Americans elected politicians to work on our behalf and for our interest, not for the interest of Big Banks and Wealthy Individuals. We must collectively demand that our political leaders protect the ACA and stay no to the greedy and yes to the need for health insurance..