1740 – South Carolina Negro Act Backstory: In response to the Stono Rebellion, South Carolina passed the Negro Act, severely restricting the freedoms of enslaved people and codifying harsh punishments. Afro-American peoples of the Americas is used to refer to people born in the Americas who have African ancestors. Most African Americans are the descendants […]
(BPRW) Marshall, co-sponsors create special online courses program to mark centennial of Negro History Week/Black History month (Black PR Wire) Marshall University announces a Call for Proposals to help create an Online Black History Courses Program commemorating the centennial of Negro History Week/Black History Month, which began in 1926 as a public-education program of Dr. Carter […]
(BPRW) Grammy-Award Winning Singer Patti Austin To Appear in Stage Workshop as Mary Cardwell Dawson (1894-1962), Founder of National Negro Opera Company Just-Released “Songs For Mary” CD Will Be The Soundtrack (Black PR Wire) Boston, MA – Grammy Award-winning R&B, pop, and jazz singer Patti Austin returns to Boston to mentor a young theatre group […]
(BPRW) Grammy-Award Winning Singer Patti Austin To Appear in Stage Workshop as Mary Cardwell Dawson (1894-1962), Founder of National Negro Opera Company Just-Released “Songs For Mary” CD Will Be The Soundtrack (Black PR Wire) Boston, MA – Grammy Award-winning R&B, pop, and jazz singer Patti Austin returns to Boston to mentor a young theatre group […]
The United Negro College Fund received a $100 million donation from the Lilly Endowment Inc.. They announced last week that it is the largest unrestricted gift ever made to the organization. The donation will help endow the 35 HBCUs that have a UNCF membership. It will boost financial stability at these institutions in the long […]
La década de los sesenta, entre brumas y esperanzas, fue una señal generalizada de protesta anticapitalista, de armamento ideológico cargado de futuro, de ofensiva de quienes Frantz Fanon había denominado como los condenados de la Tierra… y de revolución. Entre este jardín de revoluciones y perspectivas liberadoras se alzó la […]
(BPRW) Bank of America Awards Negro Leagues Baseball Museum $1M Grant for New Facility New Museum Will Further Tell the Powerful Stories of the Negro Leagues Baseball Players (Black PR Wire) KANSAS CITY, MO – The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM) today announced it has been awarded a $1 million grant from Bank of America in […]
The National Council of Negro Women, Inc. (NCNW) announced today that Shavon Arline-Bradley has been hired to serve as the organization’s first president and chief executive officer. Rev. Shavon Arline-Bradley is an ordained minister and a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. She serves as president & chairman of Delta for Women in […]
(For the entire clip, visit antishostile at www.youtube.com/antihostile.) In this clip, Malcolm X explains how civil rights legislation would not be necessary if Black Americans were already citizens. Pushing for civil rights legislation, therefore, only accommodates to the idea the Black Americans aren’t citizens in the first place. source Related Posts Horn Of Orcs – […]
For nearly fifty years, the Chicago-based Associated Negro Press (ANP) fought racism at home and grew into an international news organization abroad. At its head stood founder Claude Barnett, one of the most influential African Americans of his day and a gifted, if unofficial, diplomat who forged links with figures […]