"The precursor to Black History Month was created in 1926 in the United States, when historian Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History announced the second week of February to be "Negro History Week."
Carter G. Woodson
Carter G. Woodson
Africa to America: The Odyssey of Slavery
Africa to America: The Odyssey of Slavery
The Voice of America and Norfolk State University hosted an international town hall to discuss the 400th anniversary of the first Africans' landing in North America.
Ruby Neil Bridges
Ruby Neil Bridges
Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on 14 November 1960.
Nationality: American
Born: Ruby Nell Bridges; September 8, 1954
Occupation: Philanthropist; Activist
The Story of Funmilayo Ransome Kuti: Mother of Fela Kuti
The Story of Funmilayo Ransome Kuti: Mother of Fela Kuti
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, the mother of Afrobeat legend, Fela Kuti, served with distinction as one of the most prominent leaders of her generation and was awarded the Vladimir Lenin Peace Price in 1970. She even travelled as far as China to meet with her leader, Mao Zedong in which many saw
Omar Ibn Said
Omar Ibn Said
Power Omar Ibn Said was 37 years old when he was taken from his West African home and transported to Charleston, South Carolina, as a slave in the 1800s. Now, his one-of-a-kind autobiographical manuscript has been translated from its original Arabic and housed at the Library of Congress, where it “annihilates” the conventional narrative of African slaves as uneducated and uncultured. Amna Nawaz reports
The True Story of Madam C.J. Walker | TWO DOLLARS AND A DREAM
The True Story of Madam C.J. Walker | TWO DOLLARS AND A DREAM
TWO DOLLARS AND A DREAM is the biography of Madame C.J. Walker, America's first self-made millionairess. Mrs. Walker's fortune was built on skin and hair care products, parlaying a homemade beauty formula into a prosperous business from coast to coast.
Wangari Maathai & The Green Belt Movement
Wangari Maathai & The Green Belt Movement
Wangari Maathai is a Kenyan environmentalist and political activist. In the 1970s, Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental NGO focused on environmental conservation and women's rights. In 2004, she became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for
Fela Anikulapo Kuti - Baba 70
Visonary & Iconic
Fela Kuti, an authentic African, a creative African Musician attuned with his environment of poverty, corruption and alienation from African cultural roots
Arthouse: Bruce Onobrakpeya Speaks On 50 Years Of Creativity Part 1
Arthouse: Bruce Onobrakpeya Speaks On 50 Years Of Creativity Part 1
Nigerian Society of Engineers - Black History Month 2020 - Part 1
Nigerian Society of Engineers - Black History Month 2020 - Part 1
Known and unknown black Engineers who have being breaking down boundaries
Nigerian Society of Engineers - Black History Month Part Two
Nigerian Society of Engineers - Black History Month Part Two
Kwame Akofo Bamfo " You see the faces of our ancestors"
Kwame Akofo Bamfo " You see the faces of our ancestors"
A Ghanaian; *Kwamè* using the Sculptural human Busts in creating compositions in composite cement to depict and reflect on the wicked and e dovil *Slavery* the Eurpeans brought on Africans
Jeanette Harris
Jazz Saxtress
Jeanette Harris
Jazz Saxtress
Jeanette Harris is the scintillating saxtress of smooth jazz. This lady understands that energetic and captivating performances matched with uplifting and inspiring vibrations in the music are the solid platinum recipe for success