Priceless Vol 12 Number 5
Student from Hampton Receives International Scholarship
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DLA Director Speaks at Hampton University Founder’s Day
Personal and Professional Empowerment
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NAACP’s ‘Real State of Our Union’ Refutes Trump’s Claims
Lt. Gen. Darrell K. Williams BY CHRIS ERBE
Director Army Lt. Gen. Darrell K. Williams
Defense Logistics Agency delivered
the
keynote address at his alma mater, Hampton University, Jan. 28. This year’s Founder’s Day ceremony marked the 150th
year since a former
Union officer, Army Brig. Gen. Samuel Chapman Armstrong, established the school in Hampton, Virginia, in 1868.
“It’s difficult to put into words how honored my wife Myra and I are to be back at our ‘home by the sea,’” Williams said, using the nickname for the university, which is bordered on three sides by water. “Hampton is where we first met, where we developed friendships that persist to this day and where I began my journey toward a career in the military.”
celebrates
Hampton a
special as one of
University history
America’s
Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Following
the Civil War, recently freed slaves found themselves in a dire situation. While the Emancipation
of 1863 gave enslaved African Americans
in
Proclamation Confederate
states their freedom, they were impoverished, with no education or skills to compete for a better life. Armstrong, a white officer and commander of U.S. Colored Troops during the war, made it his life’s work to establish a school for the education of African Americans.
Armstrong’s vision was to establish a teacher’s college, a school whose curriculum included
as English, geography like
plastering and
academics, such and
mathematics, as well as skilled trades,
bricklaying, carpentry.
In addition, he stressed character
development —
honor, morality, judgment and foresight. He tied all three areas together by proclaiming
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'The Real State of Our Union' panel hosted by Roland Martin BY
NAACP.ORG
Trump’s first State of the Union Address, NAACP,
nation’s foremost civil
BALTIMORE – On the night of President the
Photo courtesy of the NAACP
candid and forthright conversation about the true politics of Trump’s first year in office.
rights
organization, hosted its own rebuttal, “The Real State of Our Union,” hosted by acclaimed journalist, Roland Martin.
In direct response to President Trump’s racism, detachment and disinterest towards Af- rican-Americans and immigrants, many in the advocacy community gathered at the Shiloh Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. to have a
While President Trump rallied for a wall on the border and credited his presidency for the drop in the Black unemployment rate, panelists at “The Real State of Our Union” called attention to key Trump policies that plague the Black community: voter suppression, an unequal criminal
justice
system, and the ostracizing of immigrants. The powerhouse panel urged participants
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