We need to question the things we take as fact, this is an ongoing process. Today, on our Raising Proud Black Children Facebook group, a member shared something that is important for us all to know. It concerned Uncle Tom! Uncle Tom was originally a character from...
It’s Martin Luther King Day today, the official holiday put in place to recognize the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As Wikipedia says Martin Luther King Jr. Day (officially Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., and sometimes referred to as MLK Day) is an...
In the western world, afro-textured hair has traditionally been treated with disdain, by members of all ethnicities. Though racial discrimination is slowly fading as the workplace becomes more accepting of a more diverse array of workplace fashions, the western...
How much do you know about Black farmers? Did you now that early Black farmers were also some of the most prolific inventors of their age? Black farmers have made major contributions to the agricultural and food production industries around the globe. Some of the most...
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...
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...
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...
Selma’s cousin Lillian Bredell-Williams was kind enough to create this profile for a true American Master that you may have never heard of! And she created an image that you may have in your pocket right now! Read on…. Selma Hortense Burke, An African...
Less than two months before Bloody Sunday, on Jan. 22, 1965, Mr. Lawrence Huggins, an educator in Selma Alabama participated in & led a march of 105 African American educators to the steps of the Dallas County courthouse in Selma to express their support of voter...
