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The Book of Negroes is a 2015 Canadian historical drama television miniseries directed by Clement Virgo, adapted by Virgo and Lawrence Hill from the latter’s 2007 novel of the same name. It stars Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor , Lyriq Bent , Cuba Gooding Jr. , Louis Gossett Jr. , Ben Chaplin , Allan Hawco , Greg Bryk , and Jane Alexander .
American Eats [10] American Eats: History on a Bun; The American Farm; The American Presidency with Bill Clinton; The American Soldier; America's 9/11 Flag: Rise from the Ashes; America's Book of Secrets [11] America's Greatest Prison Breaks; Ancient Discoveries; Ancient Empires; Ancient Impossible; Ancient Mysteries; Ancients Behaving Badly ...
The Americas is a 2025 NBC television documentary series, which highlights the world's two great continents, North America and South America, narrated by Tom Hanks. [1] [2] [3] The series premiered on February 23, 2025. [4] [5]
The show started as a single two-hour special which first aired in April 2010 but returned as a regular series of one-hour shows starting in May 2011. Season 2 premiered in the fall of 2012, with a slightly reality-oriented format and episodes shortened to 30 minutes, airing Saturdays on H2, with encore showings on Friday night on the History ...
A sundown town is an all-White community that shows or has shown hostility toward non-Whites. Sundown town practices may be evoked in the form of city ordinances barring people of color after dark, exclusionary covenants for housing opportunity, signage warning ethnic groups to vacate, unequal treatment by local law enforcement, and unwritten rules permitting harassment.
The Book of Negroes is a document created by Brigadier General Samuel Birch, under the direction of Sir Guy Carleton, that records names and descriptions of 3,000 Black Loyalists, enslaved Africans who escaped to the British lines during the American Revolution and were evacuated to points in Nova Scotia as free people of colour.
April 30 – In the pilot episode of Starsky and Hutch, Richard Ward plays an African-American supervisor of white American employees for the first time on TV. 1976. February – Black History Month is founded by Carter Woodson's Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History.
The Exhibit of American Negroes was a sociological display within the Palace of Social Economy at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris. The exhibit was a joint effort between Daniel Murray , the Assistant Librarian of Congress, Thomas J. Calloway , a lawyer and the primary organizer of the exhibit, and W. E. B. Du Bois .