Daniel Hautzinger, WTTW Source: Portrait of African-American actress and singer Etta Moten Barnett, 1950. (Photo by Afro American Newspapers/Gado/Getty Images) / Getty. Featured Image [dropcap]How[/dropcap] many acts can someone fit into a life? If you’re Etta Moten Barnett, enough to make up an epic play. From a young wife and mother to a trailblazing Broadway […]
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REVIEW: Aretha Franklin’s Soul-Stirring “Amazing Grace” Documentary Soars Into the Divine | Good Black News
Lori Lakin Hutcherson, Good Black News Ron Tom/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images. Featured Image [dropcap]Before[/dropcap] reading, please understand the deep degree to which I am an Aretha Franklin fan. I have been in rapture since I was a teen grooving to “Jump To It,” “I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me),” “Think,” and, of […]
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Black History Month: Gloria Hayes Richardson led a movement | Daily Kos
Denise Oliver Velez, Daily Kos Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Howard Greenberg Gallery. Featured Image [dropcap]I[/dropcap] have never forgotten the first time I saw a photograph of a black woman dismissively pushing a National Guard soldier’s bayonet out of her face, and another image of that […]
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Man Sees $1 Baseball Bat at Garage Sale and Discovers Its Jackie Robinson’s | The Epoch Times
One never knows what he or she might find at a garage sale, and one man in Iowa can definitely attest to this statement.
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Only Surviving Arabic Slave Narrative Written in the United States Digitized by Library of Congress | Smithsonian Magazine
Omar Ibn Said, a wealthy intellectual from West Africa, wrote about his capture and enslavement in America
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Louisville Western Branch Library (1905- ) | Black Past
The Louisville Western Branch Library in Louisville, Kentucky, first opened in 1905. This library was the first public library in the nation to serve and be fully operated by black residents.
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Retired Austin firefighter shares journey to become Texas’ first black fire inspector | KVUE
On the east side is where Austin saw its first black firefighters, including a local unsung hero of the civil rights movement.
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“Her Life is History”: The Universality of Maya Angelou | WTTW
Daniel Hautzinger, WTTW Courtesy of Getty. Featured Image [dropcap]Maya[/dropcap] Angelou is universal. She wrote memoirs, poetry, screenplays, music. She acted, she directed, she produced. She was a talk show host, a dancer, a singer, a journalist, a streetcar operator, an activist, a friend, a mother. You could converse with her in six different languages, and […]
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Charles Henry Turner, Pioneer Animal Behaviorist | ThoughtCo
First to Demonstrate Color Vision in Honey Bees
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University of Glasgow Commits to Pay Reparations for Profiting From African Enslavement, Providing A Model for Others to Follow | Atlanta Black Star
David Love, Atlanta Black Star The University of Glasgow has announced it made £200 million ($255 million) from the transatlantic slave trade according to a comprehensive report, and because of that, will make reparations through a “reparative justice program” and by establishing ties with the University of the West Indies. (Photo: National Library of Jamaica.). […]
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