Oscar Blayton

One weekend evening in 1966, while traveling from Camp LeJeune in Eastern North Carolina to Myrtle Beach, S.C., my Marine buddies and I began...

In 1995, a journalist I know was interviewing the First Lady of Virginia, Susan Brown Allen, wife of the new governor at the time,...

by Oscar Blayton, Esq.Most people of color can point to at least one moment when they realize that popular culture in America distorts the...

On a Saturday evening in February 1955, like a million other kids in America with their eyes glued to black and white televisions, I...

There has been yet another school shooting in America. The multiple murders at the Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida mark the 18th...

In January of 1963, I was in my senior year at my all-Black high school and required to take a course in U.S. Government....

Most Black folk might get offended if it is suggested that they are enablers to white supremacists.  Yet, this enabling takes place every day.In...

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla., Dec. 12, 2017 — The Walt Disney World Resort is keeping spirits and futures bright this holiday season with a $1.1 million donation...

Not long after the violence over Robert E. Lee's statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, Donald Trump went to great lengths to declare the beauty and...

It is not easy to admit when you are wrong. But the mark of the character of a man is when he can do...