Race riot in Houston

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Source: Black Past

PART TWO: 400 YEARS OF WHITE FEET ON BLACK NECKS IN AMERICA

George Floyd’s death turned a tinder box of historical frustrations with Police Brutality, institutional and systemic racism, into a bon fire of protest raging across America and the

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Source: The Florida Star

America must not fail black Americans again

The murder of George Floyd on the streets of Minnesota in 2020, is still the problem of the color

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Source: South Florida Times

Jack Johnson

Jack Johnson defeated Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia, for the heavyweight Championship. Burns will later say of his loss, Race prejudice was rampant in my mind. The idea of a black man challenging me was beyond enduring. Hatred made me tense.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Dec

26

1908

ABC 7 CHICAGO PRESENTS A VIRTUAL TOWN HALL, RACE AND COVID-19

ABC 7 CHICAGO presents RACE AND COVID-19: CHICAGO IMPACT AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHANGE, a virtual, hour-long town hall moderated by ABC 7 Anchor/Reporter Cheryl Burton, The event will be live steamed on abc7chicago.com and all the station’s digital

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Source: Chicago Defender

Africana Studies Cornell University

Panel on Food Justice - Duration: 1 hour, 29

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Source: Archives Library Information Center (ALIC)

Brown v. Board of Education

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of

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Source: BlackHistory.com

Saint Peter Claver Church, San Antonio, Texas (1888- )

Saint Peter Claver (Mission) Church was the first AfricanAmerican Catholic Church in San Antonio, Texas. The church was built by Irish-born Margaret Mary Healy Murphy, the widowof John Bernard Murphy, who was the mayor of Corpus Christi from 1889 to1884. Margaret Mary Healy Murphy movedfrom Corpus

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Source: Black Past

More Latinas Are Choosing to Identify as Afro-Latina

When Aisha Cort walks into a convenience store with her rich brown skin and tiny dark locs, she knows she has the power to cause confusion by speaking

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Source: Oprah Magazine - Life and Career Advice, Beauty Tips, Wellness Trends

Collins, Cardiss (1931- )

Cardiss Robertson Collins was born September 24, 1931 in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Findley Robertson and Rosa Mae Robertson. At the age of 10 her family relocated to Detroit and she spent the rest of her childhood there, eventually graduating from the Detroit High School of

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Source: Black Past

Jun

5

1973

Jewel Scott breaks legal and racial barriers in Georgia

Former Jamaican honorary consul to Atlanta, Jewel Scott, recently created history by becoming the first Caribbean national to be elected to the Superior Court of Clayton County in the southern US state of

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Race riot, Paterson, New Jersey

Race riot, Paterson, New Jersey. (8/11-12).

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Aug

11

1964

Black Woman Schools Uninformed English Man About the Harsh Aftermath of Slavery (VIDEO)

Black Woman Schools Uninformed English Man About the Harsh Aftermath of Slavery (VIDEO) An African woman quickly corrects an English man about the reality of slavery. Video by the BBC’s ‘The Big Question.’

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Source: Black Then

Race riot, Augusta, Georgia

Race riot, Augusta, Georgia. Six Blacks were killed. Authorities said five of the victims were shot by police.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

May

12

1970

Johnson, Charles (1948-- )

Writer and educator Charles Johnson is best known for his novel Middle Passage (1990), which earned a National Book Award for depicting the voyage of a newly-freed slave. He was the first African American to receive the award since 1953 when Ralph Ellison won for Invisible

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Source: Black Past

Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. During the time, it was known as the New Negro Movement, named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. The Movement also included the new African-American cultural

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Source: BlackHistory.com

Constitution of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, 1918

The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities’ League is a social, friendly, humanitarian, charitable, educational, institutional, constructive and expansive society, and is founded by persons desiring to the utmost to work for the general uplift of the Negro peoples of the

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Source: Black Past

Race riot

Race riot, East St. Louis, Illinois. Estimates of number killed ranged from forty to two hundred. Martial law was declared. A congressional investigating committee said, It is not possible to give accurately the number of dead. At least thirty-nine Negroes and eight white people were killed

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Jul

1

1917

Coronavirus, Which Already Hit African Americans The Hardest, Also Eliminated Black Job Gains

Recently released statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor now show that the pandemic has wiped out major employment gains and curtailed years of economic growth for Black people in America, The Wall Street Journal

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Source: Celebrities, Music, News, Entertainment, TV Shows & Videos | BET

Ice Cube Supports Charlamagne and Diddy Against Biden Democrats

According to Diddy, the blacks should refrain from supporting Joe Biden and other democrats until the challenges the black communities

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Source: Your Black World

Get Tested for COVID-19 . . .For Yourself, For Your Family, Co-workers, Customers, Neighbors and Friends

Riverside had tested more than 104,700 residents—9,590 of those were confirmed positive for the virus, while testing in San Bernardino County is progressing much slower, through June 9, the county had only tested 6,953 individuals with 3,931 testing

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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California

African American History Bibliography Authors & Editors

Abajian, James de T. Blacks in Selected Newspapers, Censuses and Other Sources: An Index to Names and Subjects Yes

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Source: Black Past

Identifying Race-Based Stereotypes and Myths

Race-based stereotypes and myths pose a great threat to racial equality. That’s because they can lead to prejudice and hatred, which, in turn, lead to discrimination against entire ethnic groups. The people who make up any given racial group are so unique that no generalization can capture who they

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Source: ThoughtCo

Tomorrow Is National CROWN Day, AKA, Black Hair Independence Day

July 3 marks the one-year anniversary of The CROWN Act and as such, The CROWN Coalition, a national alliance founded by Dove, the National Urban League, the Western Center on Law & Poverty, and Color Of Change has declared July 3, 2020, National CROWN Day, also known as Black Hair

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Source: MadameNoire

How Hollywood Has Shaped Our Understanding Of Police

I think there’s a straight line you can draw from the entertainment people consume to police killing unarmed Black

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Source: HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost-0

Race riot, Chicago

Race riot, Chicago. National Guard mobilized.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Jul

12

1966

WARNING to Black Fathers | Afram News

We'd love to tell you Happy Father's Day, but in today's day and age, we feel the need to just say Congratulations, you've made it another year. In the words of Charles S. Dutton in the movie Menace 2 Society, the HUNT is on.

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Source: African American News | Black News | Afram News

Race riot, East St

Race riot, East St. Louis, Illinois. One Black killed.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

May

27

1917

White America, Let's Negotiate: What Do You Really Want?

Let me be PERFECTLY clear: BLACK PEOPLE in AMERICA are NOT going into 2021 under this duress. It is unsustainable. So I ask White America, what do you want?

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Source: NewsOne

(1998) Clarence Thomas, "Speech to the National Bar Association"

On July 28, 1998, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas gave the keynote speech at the National Bar Association, the predominately black national lawyerss association, at its annual convention held that year in Memphis, Tennessee. The speech appears

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Source: Black Past

Jul

28

1998

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