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[8]: 84 It was decided to spell the holiday's name with an additional "a" so that it would have a symbolic seven letters. [8]: 228 During the early years of Kwanzaa, Karenga said it was meant to be an alternative to Christmas. He believed Jesus was psychotic and Christianity was a "White" religion that Black people should shun. [10]
March 10: Harriet Tubman Day: 1: 2000: Maryland (2000) [10] The death of Harriet Tubman May 19: Malcolm X Day: 1: 2015: Illinois (2015) [11] The birthday of Malcolm X August 4: Barack Obama Day: 1: 2017: Illinois (2017) [12] The birthday of Barack Obama February 4: Transit Equality Day: 1: 2022: Wisconsin (2022) [13] The birthday of Rosa Parks ...
American prisoner artist, C-Note's, 2016, ink on paper artwork, Black August - Los Angeles. Black August is an annual commemoration and prison-based holiday to remember Black political prisoners, Black freedom struggles in the United States and beyond, and to highlight Black resistance against racial, colonial and imperialist oppression.
Holidays are a time to get together and celebrate what's important. But let's be honest, they can be a little boring. Luckily, pop culture has given us alternative holidays that are a little more ...
According to lore, Dan's father invented the holiday for the very same reasons echoed in the sitcom episode: to have a secular occasion void of the consumerism that often characterizes Christmas ...
The WPA led to a new wave of important black art professors. Mixed media, abstract art, cubism, and social realism became not only acceptable, but desirable. Artists of the WPA united to form the 1935 Harlem Artists Guild, which developed community art facilities in major cities. Leading forms of art included drawing, sculpture, printmaking ...
For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed ...
N. Naked Mile (event) National Beer Day (United States) National Cartoonist Day; National Corndog Day; National Day of Listening; National Day of Reason