The 365 Black History serious is designed to give our community a chance to learn and appreciate the achievement, struggles and experience of our ancestors, inventors, business people, scientific, educators, children and more.

On May 28th in Black History

1814 – Daniel Reaves Goodloe, emancipatist, born.

1831 – Eliza Ann Gardner, underground railroad conductor, born.

1934 – Betty Shabazz, civil rights activist, educator and wife of Malcolm X, born.

Born Betty Dean Sanders, she converted to Islam in 1956 after attending services led by Malcolm X at a Nation of Islam Temple in Harlem. Like the civil rights icon, she changed her surname to “X” shortly after converting to Islam to honor her African ancestry. She married Malcolm X on January 14, 1958, in Michigan. The couple had six daughters together.

1944 – Gladys Knight, singer, born.

1948 – Nationalist Party in South Africa wins White-only elections and begins dismantling limited rights of Africans.

1975 – Treaty of Lagos creates The Economic Community of West African States

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was created to promote cooperation and integration in order to create an economic and monetary union for promoting economic growth and development in West Africa.

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Our history has a long, glorious and bright light that has shown since the dawn of time. However, it has long been hidden from us as if we were blind.

Now is the time to come together and consciously grow our understanding of our ancestors, culture, history and place in this world. The only way we can do this tie the knot of our past with our present to create the future we all desire.