WHY AUGUST QUARTERLY IS IMPORTANT Today?

 
Carter G. Woodson said, “those who forget their history are destined to repeat it”. Of course the August Quarterly is a part of history that we want to remember and repeat, but not merely for the sake of repetition and romanticized remembrance.
August Quarterly points to the struggle [...]

 
WHY AUGUST QUARTERLY IS IMPORTANT?

 
The festival, during the years of slavery, provided a rare platform for those Africans held captive to worship GOD with each other, as well as with free men and women.  It was reported in the Wilmington Morning News in 1889 that “permission gave them one day of freedom…the opportunity [...]