Remembering Sam Smith of the Native Son Book Store and Black Love

Welcome to Our Own Voices Live with your hosts: Angela Thomas & Rodney Smith
Our Topic(s) today: “Remembering Sam Smith of the Native Son Book Store and Black Love.”

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February is African American History Month

As a Harvard-trained historian, Carter G. Woodson, like W. E. B. Du Bois before him, believed that truth could not be denied and that reason would prevail over prejudice. His hopes to raise awareness of African American's contributions to civilization was realized when he and the organization he founded, the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH), conceived and announced Negro History Week in 1925.
For more information, click here: www.africanamericanhistorymonth.gov/about.html

Sam Smith is a giant in the local Las Vegas community and made his transition from this life to whats beyond sometime Monday morning. 
Today we want to share our thoughts of this great man and hope that you will call in and share yours with us too.

As we wish you all a Happy Valentines's day we ask the question, "What is going on with Black love?"

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