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Tue, 02.19.2002

The First African American Wins A Gold Medal In The Winter Olympics

*On this date in 2002, Vonetta Flowers became the first Black gold medalist in the history of the Winter Olympic Games.

She and partner Jull Brakken won the inaugural women's two-person bobsled event.

New Poem Each Day

Poetry Corner

I Life goes by moving, Up and down a chain of moods Wanting what’s nothing. II My soul is the wind Dashing down fields of Autumn: O, too swift... ENCHANTMENT by Lewis Grandison Alexander
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