Black History Month Offers a wealth of activities in BostonBourne, Kay
Best of all, supporting Black restaurants doesn’t have to stop once Black History Month is over. You can take this action today, tomorrow, and throughout the year! Below, we’ve rounded up eight Black-owned, Boston-based businesses that we recommend: (Editor’s note: PI is local to Bo...
Also ranks #9 on The Best Movies About Black History, Ranked 35 In the Heat of the Night Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates 13 votes In the Heat of the Night, a classic and groundbreaking thriller, follows the uneasy alliance between a black Philadelphia detective (Sidney Poitier)...
The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 is considered one of the most atrocious acts of white supremacist terrorism and anti-Black racism in U.S. history, yet many people still don’t know about it. This film is a true-to-life retelling of this horrific incident, in which a mob of white resid...
Carter G. WoodsonCBS Boston He wanted the week to not only be celebrated in academia, but across the nation. "It was being observed in the newspapers but getting it into the schools meant our children could learn their history from us," said Carter. ...
Over 13K filmgoers have voted on the 150+ people on Greatest Black Actors In Film History. Current Top 3: Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Samuel L.
For most of American history, a majority of the Black population in this country was prohibited from learning to read or write. Today millions of African Americans are enrolled in higher education. Here are some key events that occurred along the way. 1799: John Chavis, a Presbyterian minister...
Roots: The Saga of an American Familyby Alex Haley: This novel is based on Haley's family history, and tells the story of Kunta Kinte, who is sold into slavery in the US. On Beautyby Zadie Smith: This novel tells the story of an interracial family impacted by culture...
The school’s history is traced to 1881, when two Boston women, Sophia Packard and Harriet Giles, began teaching a small group of African American women, mostly ex-slaves, in an Atlanta church basement. Two years later the school moved to the site of Fort McPherson, which had been a Unio...
From Memphis to Boston, uncover important monuments, museums, and historical sites to learn more about Black history.