by Verlie S | Feb 11, 2019 | 2019, Black History Month, History
Noble Drew Ali, born as Timothy Drew, came into this world on January 8, 1886, in the state of North Carolina. Many of his followers believe that he was the orphaned son of two ex-slaves who was raised by the Cherokee. However, others feel that his father was a man by...
by Verlie S | Feb 8, 2019 | 2019, Black History Month, History
Black history is full of amazing and inspiring stories and this one is no different. During the 1950s and 1960s, Dorothy (Giles) Ngongang picked cotton with her family as sharecroppers on a South Carolina farm. Her parents and nine siblings lived in a two-bedroom hut...
by Verlie S | Feb 5, 2019 | 2019, Black History Month, History
Black Wall Street was located in Greenwood, Oklahoma, which is a suburb of Tulsa. During the 1900s, the location was known as one of the most concentrated black businesses in the United States. African Americans started to move towards the area in the late 1800s due...
by James Washington | Feb 3, 2019 | History, Profiles in Black History
John Horse was an African and Seminole military leader, who became known under many names, such as John Cowaya, Gopher John, and Juan Caballo. While there isn’t much known about his early life, we believe he came into this world in 1812. It’s also known that by the...
by James Washington | Feb 2, 2019 | 2019, Black History Month, Did You Know, DYK, History
The month of February is considered “Black History Month” across the United States. But it had a much earlier predecessor called “Negro History Week”. This recognition was the brainchild of an African-American historian, Dr. Carter G. Woodson. He is considered by...
by Forest Parks | Feb 1, 2019 | History, Profiles in Black History
Frances Cress Welsing is an American Afrocentrist psychiatrist who became known for her 1970 essay The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism, which became the beginning of the Isis Papers. Born on March 18, 1935, in Chicago, Illinois, her father, Henry, was a...
by Forest Parks | Jan 25, 2019 | Did You Know, History, Profiles in Black History
The granddaughter of enslaved people, Louise Shropshire was born Louise Jarrett on February 15, 1913 in Coffee County, Alabama. In 1917, her family relocated to Cincinnati, Ohio in search of a better life than they had experienced as rural Alabama sharecroppers. As a...
by Forest Parks | Jan 11, 2019 | History
By 1850 it is estimated that around 100,000 enslaved people’s had made their way to freedom using the underground railroad. But what was it? It certainly wasn’t a metro line running through the states to Canada, in fact, it didn’t even make that much...
by Forest Parks | Dec 19, 2018 | Did You Know, History
We want to settle this myth once and for all! As a business we often use the word Xmas instead of Christmas, it is snappy, fits in a smaller space and sometimes just works better. However we also get chewed out every year by people saying things like, Xmas is...
by Forest Parks | Nov 23, 2018 | History, Opinion
I just can’t deal with the absolute bull anymore that Christopher Columbus founded the USA. It is stuffed down our throats, celebrated. The USA actually celebrates a man coming and ravaging a native population then claiming he found a land! Yesterday’s...
