A new bench will welcome visitors to Mink Meadow’s first hole, one dedicated to Charles Ogletree, the renowned civil rights lawyer, Harvard professor and early-morning golfer.

The importance of women’s leadership, support and empowerment inspired Deborah Grant to start her annual Dining With Deb event on the Island.

Voter engagement, democracy and the media’s role in shaping the upcoming Presidential election were highlighted through a Black lens during a recent panel titled When We Vote: Why It Matters.

The annual Charles Ogletree Public Forum Series on Thursday at Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs was also a moment to honor the founder of the series. Mr. Ogletree died the next day, on August 4.

Charles James Ogletree Jr., law professor, seasonal Oak Bluffs resident and founder of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School, died on Friday, August 4.

They are two of the most accomplished and respected scholars both in
the nation's elite collegiate circles and in the African-American
community, but on Wednesday morning Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Dr.
Charles J. Ogletree Jr. were preoccupied with one thing - going
fishing.

Alienated and impoverished young African Americans are being recruited to radical Islam, and could yet produce black America’s version of 9/11, a Christian Community leader has warned.

“I’m telling you, it’s a ticking bomb,” the Rev. Eugene Rivers, pastor of the Azusa Christian Community, told a conference on Race, Religion and Reason at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School on Wednesday.