On the east side is where Austin saw its first black firefighters, including a local unsung hero of the civil rights movement.
View MoreTag: Black History
“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 […]
View More
Looking for “real” Black History stories from local African-Americans | On Milwaukee
Molly Snyder, On Milwaukee Tell us about your African-American family members who moved Milwaukee forward. (PHOTO: America’s Black Holocaust Museum/Facebook). Featured Image [dropcap]Every[/dropcap] year for Black History Month, Judge Derek Mosley posts daily tributes on Facebook during the month of February that provide information about remarkable African-Americans who were excluded from mainstream history books. [mc4wp_form […]
View More
Charles Henry Turner, Pioneer Animal Behaviorist | ThoughtCo
First to Demonstrate Color Vision in Honey Bees
View More
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.). […]
View More
Migrations the theme of Black History Month kickoff | Pittsburg Post-Gazette
Rich Lord, Pittsburg Post-Gazette Ronald Saunders, president of the Dr. Edna B. McKenzie Branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, sits in his Penn Hills home on Thursday. “The foundation of this country was built by African Americans. The roads, the bridges, everything that you can see. They even […]
View More
Searing New Documentary Reveals Lynching is “Always In Season” | Daily Kos
WB Reeves, Daily Kos Winokur Photography. Featured Image [dropcap]This[/dropcap] year’s Sundance Film Festival saw the premier of an important, emotionally wrenching documentary that exposes the raw and bleeding but unrecognized wound of lynching in the US past and present. Always In Season. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] It’s been one the supreme privileges of my life to have […]
View More
What the ‘Father of Black History’ Would Have Actually Wanted Americans to Do for Black History Month | Time
Olivia B Waxman, Time Carter G. Woodson, the “father of black history.” Image: Library of Congress. Featured Image [dropcap]The[/dropcap] official theme of Black History Month 2019, “Black Migrations,” is a fitting one: not only is migration one of today’s most pressing political issues, but it’s also a key part of the annual observance’s own history. […]
View More
Sundance Film Review: ‘Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool’ | Variety
Stanley Nelson’s superbly crafted documentary taps deep into the mystique of Miles Davis: his sound, stardom, and cult of personality.
View More
The Women Behind The Songs: Jessie Mae Robinson | NPR
MEREDITH OCHS, NPR Jessie Mae Robinson’s songs have been recorded by hundreds of artists, from Louis Jordan to Lana Del Rey. Courtesy of the Robinson family. Featured Image [dropcap]Many[/dropcap] may know Wanda Jackson’s 1960s hit “Let’s Have a Party,” or even the versions performed by Led Zeppelin and Elvis Presley, but most will not recognize […]
View More