Youth at core of Black History program at Unity Baptist ChurchWillis, Roderick C
Black History Month started as Negro History Week in the United States, created by historian Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. Woodson envisioned the week commemorating the countless individuals from the Black community who had contributed to the advance...
Celebrate Black History Month with a fascinating program honoring African American inventors who changed the world. Learn about the genius behind everyday innovations like the traffic light, ice cream, and mobile refrigeration! The Talking Drum Fairfield Library | February 1, 2025 Bring the family to...
Eventually, our hope is that this study can serve as the standard Christian education curriculum for the church, or be augmented for special educational occasions such as Vacation Bible School, Black History Month, the Juneteenth celebration, or whatever the church desires. ...
From the exhibits at The National Constitution Center to the founding of the African Methodist Episcopal or AME church, there’s more African American history to be revealed, digested and remembered in this city than meets the eye. The only museum dedicated to the Constitution also includes many...
February 24, 2021In recognition of Black History Month, we asked some of our colleagues to share a special part of their own Black history through a favorite artifact or family heirloom. In the fourth and final part of this series, we hear from McKinsey colleagues on how their fathers’l...
Today, this area is along Lazaretto Creek, which empties into the south channel of the Savannah River, opposite Cockspur Island. The creek was once called “Tybee Creek.” A special history study was recently prepared for Fort Pulaski National Monument, and an entire section of their report pr...
During the school's first 100 years history, Lincoln graduated about 20% of the nation's Black doctors and more than 10% of Black lawyers, per the university. Poet Langston Hughes and the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall are among Lincoln's notable alumni. Next:19. ...
1926: Negro History Week is formed The precursor to Black History Month was the brainchild of historian Carter G. Woodson in collaboration with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Corresponding with the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, the week wa...
such as the Schomburg Collection of African History and Culture, Apollo Theater, and Harlem YMCAs; important sites of the Civil Rights Movement, such as the Headquarters of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, houses associated with 19th century free-Black communities and abolitionists, ...