by DeNay Burris Hillary Clinton pawned the phrase, “It takes a village to raise a child”. When did this concept become a thing of the [...]

 Last Friday night, Shaquille Jones became the all-time career reception leader in Arkansas High School football. Shaquille accomplished this feat in 28 games. With two games left before State Shaquille has 261 receptions. He surpassed the previous record of 259 which had been set in 40 games from 1998-2000. Hats off to you Shaquille and [...]

Marian Kursh, daughter  of Kim and James Mays  of Fort Smith, is getting  along famously academically  as well as well as  athletically at UALR. 

This is a new section being added to the Lincoln Echo.  Its purpose will be to provide an objective look at where we as a people started and compare that with where we have come.  We will look at the schools, the neighborhoods, the organizations, the media, the churches and the personalities of another era [...]

         Following the mediocre performance by former World Boxing Champion Hasim Rahman recently against newly crowned champion Oleg Maskaev, African American heavyweight fighters begin a campaign on October 7, 2006 at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois to take back their heavyweight titles that have been theirs almost 70 years.

 Before the ball hit the bottom of the cup in the 18th green at the Medinah Country Club inIllinois last Sunday, the mob of scribes covering the Professional Golf Association(PGA) attournament had added Eldrick â€"Tiger"€ù Woods to the growing list of Greatest Of AllTime(G.O.A.T) athletes competing in the sports the world today.

More than sixty years ago, the defending National Football League champion, Cleveland Rams not only moved West to Los Angeles, their owner Dan Reeves made Kenny Washington, a University of California at Los Angeles running back, the first African American since Fritz Pollard in 1921, to play professional football in the United States on March [...]

Ever since Eldrick "Tiger" Woods left Stanford University to play golf professionally, his million dollar career has attracted fans all over the world.The son of an African American military veteran and a Thailand woman arrival on the Professional Golf Association Tour was considered by many as a signal for others with a similar complexion to [...]

A long time ago, in the cities, African American  youngsters imitated such luminaries as Satchel Paige, Willie Mays, Jackie Robinson, Don Newcombe, and many others with a tennis bal and a broom stick as the cars went by  because America’s number one pastime was baseball.

While the leaders of the current society are giving recognition to those who made civic contributions which turned thousands of African Americans into millionaires, let’s give credit to one person, whose leadership sparked the civil rights movement in this country, Joseph Louis Barrow.