by Verlie S | Feb 14, 2019 | 2019, Black History Month, History
Martin Delany was a Civil Rights activist, author, editor, and doctor who came into this world on May 6, 1812. Born in Charles Town, West Virginia, as the son of slaves, his grandfather on his father’s side was a village chieftain while his grandfather on his mother’s...
by Verlie S | Feb 12, 2019 | 2019, Black History Month, History
Pioneer African American explorer Matthew Henson joined Robert Peary on several voyages around the Arctic with one of their destinations to be reaching the North Pole. Henson came into this world on August 8, 1866, in Nanjemoy, Maryland. His parents worked as...
by Forest Parks | Feb 12, 2019 | Black Businesses, Positivity, Video
This Black History month we are talking to our youth! Last week we talked with Gabby (watch here) and this week we have asked a few questions about the future, about the past and their insight is a joy to watch to Bailee, aged 11, and her brother Earl, aged 13. Bailee...
by Reneegede | Feb 11, 2019 | Opinion
There was never a time when America was a Christian nation, but Black folks are finally spitting fire in the Black church…and some are even being murdered for it. If they are killing them now, it must be true. The Awakening Sculpture is courtesy of TripAdvisor...
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 Forest Parks | Feb 5, 2019 | Black Businesses, Positivity, Video
We are so PUMPED to share this video today. This is the first of 4 videos this Black History month talking to our youth! We have asked a few questions about the future, about the past and their insight is a joy to watch! Gabby, the 10-year-old Entrepreneur who...
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 Reneegede | Feb 3, 2019 | Opinion
Dateline: February 3, 2019-Somewhere in Atlanta GA not too far from Stone Mountain Park…where American terrorists lay immortal on a wall carving and the right of #BlackLives to survive in their own country lay in heaps of rubble. *** We’ve been told over...
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...
