Black farming communities developed in Ohio from the early 1800's through the 1870's. The impetus for the development into Ohio was its free state status and it was a short route to Canada, via the Underground Railroad. Early during this period some farmers owned land as large as 2000 ...
Black youth have “double or triple jeopardy” in that they are exposed to general audience child targeted marketing, to ethnically targeted child marketing, and to ethnically targeted marketing to Black adults or communities in general [23]. There is evidence that Black youth may also trust food...
“LGBTQ+ people in the church suffer in relative silence while those who have left are forced to find or even create new spiritual communities,” Leath told The Associated Press. In the AME, according to interviews with clergy, lay leaders and academics, there is generally an older group who...
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Our Living LanguageIn the United States,Black Englishusually refers to the everyday spoken varieties of English used by African Americans, especially of the working class in urban neighborhoods or rural communities. (Some linguists use the termAfrican American Vernacular English.) It is an error to...
The Geography of Resistance turns the reader's attention away from one of the most enduring elements of the UGRR legend—white abolitionists and the "stations" in their cellars and attics—to focus on the contributions of free black communities scattered throughout southern Indiana, Ohio, and ...
Texas HBCU Expands Free Legal Support to Protect Family Property for Houston’s Underserved Communities Nationwide — In a city where gentrification and soaring property values pose unique challenges for low-income families, the Earl Carl Institute (ECI) at Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshal...
free Blackcommunitiesin the Northern states had become sufficiently large and organized to hold regular national conventions, where Black leaders gathered to discussalternativestrategies of racial advancement. In 1833 a small minority of whites joined with Black antislavery activists to form theAmerican An...
One of the first activists to publicly express influential statements from a Black feminist perspective wasSojourner Truth, a formerly enslavedAfrican Americanwoman. At the 1851Women’s Rights Conventionin Akron, Ohio, Truth delivered a famous speech, known as “Ain’t I a Woman?,” in which sh...