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“I read the script, and I was like, whoa,” series star Taraji P. Henson told Variety during a sit-down conversation at the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival (MVAAFF), where ...
Black Life: Untold Stories is a Canadian television documentary series, premiered on CBC Television on October 18, 2023. [1] Created by Leslie Norville, the eight-episode series profiles Black Canadian history.
Daunted by spotty record keeping and Black enslavement, a retiree traveled South in search of her family history She hoped to learn more about her enslaved ancestors. A trip South revealed hard ...
Obama became the first Black president in American history after winning the 2008 election race against John McCain. While in office, he earned a Nobel Peace Prize, worked to limit climate change ...
Mae Louise Miller (born Mae Louise Wall; August 24, 1943 – 2014) was an American woman who was kept in modern-day slavery, known as peonage, near Gillsburg, Mississippi and Kentwood, Louisiana until her family achieved freedom in early 1961.
The American Revolutionary War, which saw the Thirteen Colonies become independent and transform into the United States, led to great social upheavals for African Americans; Black soldiers fought on both the British and the American sides, and after the conflict ended the Northern United States gradually abolished slavery.
The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)'s has chosen a theme for Black History Month every year since 1928, per their official website. According to Parry, the ...
BLK: An Origin Story is a Canadian documentary television series, which aired in 2022 on History. [1] Created, directed and produced by Sudz Sutherland and Jennifer Holness for Hungry Eyes Film and Television, the series explores Black Canadian history.