Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Born: December 31, 1918
Died: March 19, 2015 (aged 96)
Bio: Yosef Alfredo Antonio Ben-Jochannan, referred to by his admirers as "Dr. Ben", was an African-American writer and historian.
Known for:
- We the Black Jews (1983)
- Africa: mother of Western civilization. (1971)
- New dimensions in African history (1991)