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African American music in Stephen Foster's time, Uncle Tom's Cabin takes the nation by storm, Stephen Foster backs Pennsylvania Democrat James Buchanan and the Yale Glee Club nixes Foster.
In Oklahoma, by 1900 African American farmers owned 1.5 million acres, the peak of black land ownership there, which began to decline by 1910. The first African Americans in California had arrived ...
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. This Emmy Award-winning series premiered in 2013 and looks at more than just Black history, it explores Black identity and what it means to be an ...
In 1931, the last surviving captive of an American slave ship was interviewed by Zora Neale Hurston. It was not the only time Hurston would preserve a vital, endangered piece of American culture ...
In 1968, 25 million Americans — roughly 13 percent of the population — lived below poverty level. In 2016, 43.1 million – or more than 12.7% – did. Today’s black poverty rate of 21% is ...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defended his administration's decision to block a course on African American studies from the state's public schools. He said teaching Black history is required in ...
American Black Journal is an historic television program that has been presenting issues and events from African-American perspectives since 1968. ... Race & Culture invites audiences into bold ...
How Black activists have long used mapmaking to document culture and racism in the U.S. Nation Feb 17, 2024 2:30 PM EDT. When historian Carter Woodson created “Negro History Week” in 1926 ...
Quilter Michael A. Cummings is inspired by jazz. Working in the narrative tradition, Cummings and his sewing machine tell stories of the African American experience across historical, cultural ...
Transcript. - Bae, squad, fleek, basic, no cap, bet, yaaaaas, turn up, spilling tea, got receipts, keep it 100, finesse. These are just a few terms and phrases that originated in black communities ...