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Carter G. Woodson
Carter G. Woodson was the second African American to earn a Ph.D. at Harvard — the first was W.E.B. DuBois… Woodson served as an education administrator in the Philippines from 1904 to 1907… He launched the publication The Negro Bulletin in 1937 as a way to reach younger audiences… President Gerald
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Jack and Jill of America Foundation Partners With Natural Grocers to Donate $133K to HBCU Students
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How Hennessy Found a Home in the Black Community
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FAME-Athens Celebrates Black History Month
First AME Church in Athens, Georgia, had a great time celebrating Black History Month with our members and
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Popular African-American Musicians
In 1926, a Harvard scholar by the name of Dr. Carter G. Woodson organized the first annual Negro History Week. The said event happened in the second week of February which also coincides with the birthdays of two great civil rights leaders: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. In honor of the
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Black Lives Matter, According to Meg •
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Cyber-Youth Network Launch
On Wednesday, February 3rd, for the first time in history, Americas urban students will have a Web site specifically designed to address their educational needs and interests. The site -- called the Cyber-Youth Network -- provides a model for online education by offering students and teachers
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The Slogan ‘Black Lives Matter’ Is Right and Exact
The organization of Black Lives Matter started out as a hashtag on the social media website called Facebook by a Black woman named Alicia Garza on July
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Duo brings COVID-19 awareness and changes to lifestyle – Daytona Times
Lawrence Green and Linda Epps are casting the spotlight upon being stuck inside and flattening the curve of the coronavirus. Green mostly lays low, taking it easy, reeling from losing friends and family because of the virus. “The best cousin in the whole world” passed way, exclaimed Epps, who can
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers: Preserving African American Spirituals – Smithsonian Libraries / Unbound
The early history of the group is documented in Gustavus D. Pike’s The Jubilee Singers and their campaign for twenty thousand dollars (1873),  held in the library of the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum and that of the National Museum of American History, as well as available in our Digital
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Birmingham looks ahead to Black History Month - Voice Online
A CALL has gone out for submissions to be included in Birmingham’s celebration of Black... The post Birmingham looks ahead to Black History Month appeared first on Voice Online.
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Ralph Metcalfe’s life as Olympic legend, 4-term congressman and WWII veteran will inspire you - Face2Face Africa

Many men are known for one significant feat before transitioning to the great beyond. But Ralph Harold Metcalfe is not your average man. For a time, he was called 'the fastest man on Earth' for good reason. Metcalfe had Marie Attaway and Clarence Metcalfe as parents from May 30, 1910. They were

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African-Americans in Astronomy and Space
Black History Month began as Negro History Week first celebrated in 1926. Later evolving into Black History Month, it was the brainchild of Dr. Carter Woodson. Until that time, very little emphasis was placed on the study of African-American
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Rare Video Footage of Historic Alabama 1965 Civil Rights Marches, MLK's Famous Montgomery Speech
To see much more from the film, King: A Filmed Record, on Democracy Now!, visit http://owl.li/i1B3S. In a Black History Month special, Democracy Now! airs excerpts of the 1970 documentary, King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis, a rarely seen Oscar-nominated feature about Dr. Martin Luther
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Royal Mail unveils special edition postboxes to mark Black History Month - Voice Online
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Young people explore experiences of racism through short films - Voice Online
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Quintard Taylor Presentations on Film or Videotape, 1975-2016
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