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Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Sunday, May 26, 2024

Must Read Book: COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid

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Check out this exciting and interesting book about Harriet Tubman. The book is titled COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, a...
Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Tuskegee Airmen Clifton Brooks Sr. dies at 99

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Cliffton E. Brooks Sr., who served as a cryptologist with the famed all-Black Tuskegee Airmen, passed away Friday night at the age of 99....
Thursday, October 17, 2019

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE ACQUIRES ITEMS FROM THE AMERICAN BLACK FILM FESTIVAL

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On Friday, Oct. 11, ABFF Ventures, LLC., announced that objects, photographs, documents and other memorabilia from The American B...
Sunday, May 12, 2019

New Book “Sweet Georgia Brown: Impact, Courage, Sacrifice, and Will” Is a Chronicle of the Military Achievements of Black Women During World War II

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Lawrence E. Walker is a native of New Jersey, president and CEO of PureHistory.org, an online social search engine and media network foc...
Sunday, May 20, 2018

Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo by Zora Neale Hurston

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A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, with a foreword fro...
Monday, January 01, 2018

Experts say black Confederate soldiers didn't fight for South Carolina

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Two South Carolina lawmakers want to erect a monument on the State House grounds to African-Americans who served the state as Confederat...
Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Octavia Spencer to play millionaire Madam C.J. Walker in new biopic

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Octavia Spencer has signed on to play America’s first black millionaire in a new movie. The “Hidden Figures” star, who is up for a Be...
Monday, November 21, 2016

Oldest remaining Tuskegee Airman, Willie N. Rogers , dies at 101

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We have lost another one, another hero, another example of excellence, we have lost another Tuskegee Airmen. God bless his soul. Will...
Thursday, February 11, 2016

Did you know that William Henry Hastie was the first black federal judge?

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Hastie received a BA from Amherst, where he finished first in his class, and then received a law degree (1930) from Harvard, becoming th...
Friday, February 05, 2016

Smithsonian opening African-American history museum Sept. 24, 2016

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UPDATES: Grand Opening Schedule for the National Museum of African American History and Culture Denzel Washington Event Raises Million...