Window, Thoughts

Elevate your mind... I was born in the Brownville section of Brooklyn, New York in the early fifties. The oldest of three children born to David and Mildred Hicks. My memories of life in those early times were so amazing until I started school; that when I found out that I wasn't just a child but a negro boy. To call someone in the neighborhood "black" would cause a fight; remember negro people on the majority did not embraced their "blackness" until 1969 when James Brown record "Say it lou...