Finding Common Ground focuses on the complex history of African Americans and Native Americans and how their intertwined stories have become an essential part of American identity. In this segment, Tiya Miles, professor at the University of Michigan, speaks on “The First and the Forced: Tracing Historical Overlaps in Native and Black America.” Tiya Miles …
• The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute: Located at Stanford University, this institute is a permanent financial base for the King Papers Project and a broad range of other educational activities. It’s goal is to disseminate King’s visionary ideas in perpetuity. • Black Heritage Society: a self-help, non-profit organization chartered by the State of Texas that …
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You are invited to review Benjamin’s social commentary. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/12/black-people-history-respected-teachers-police-benjamin-zephaniah https://www.theguardian.com/profile/benjaminzephaniah
Carter G. Woodson was attributed as being the founder of black history month. Creation of Negro History Week in 1926 paved the way for the establishment of Black History Month in 1976. The Harvard-trained historian Carter G. Woodson and the prominent minister Jesse E. Moorland founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and …
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In recent months, racial and social justice, and systemic racism have been at the forefront of the battle for human equality. A few days ago, Mrs. Gisele Yitamben wrote a piece for the World Economic Forum (WEF) where she addressed a very important point in the battle against systemic racism, namely the fact that the history of …
With our visitors and staff safety in mind, we have decided to temporarily close black cultural archives’ 1 Windrush square building from 18:00 on Wednesday 18th march 2020. we will regularly review advice and guidance from the government and health bodies to determine our re-opening date. However You can still experience BCA 24 hours a …
King William III House of Orange King of Scotland, England, and Wales Commissioned in 1692 Portrait of King William III of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1692. William of Orange (1650-1702) was invited by a conspiracy of English notables to depose the Catholic James II and assume the throne in his stead. The invasion, which was …
