Today’s Timothy Thomas Fortune historical thought concerns facts regarding how this nation treated our ancestors just released from the evil chains of inhumane enslavement written in 1884.

Thomas Timothy Fortune was one of the greatest intellectual minds in late 19th and early 20th century. Many of his most powerful words are still are relevant to the progress of our black communities. As I read his 1884 masterpiece Black and White on The Blackman Read Aloud Hour I am amazed at Ancestor Fortune’s brilliance, like this: