Share your favorite tales about people, places and events with a chance to win Black Blogger Connect’s 2nd Annual Black History Month Blogging Contest. What’s cool about this contest is that you can use previous written articles, so you don’t have pull your hair out trying to create something new. Hurry up and submit articles; [...]
I LOVE Black history and I would like to wish everyone a happy Black history month. Black people have made many a great contributions to the history of this world, however, very few have been acknowledged. Following are a just a few of my favorite Black people in history. Carter G. Woodson Ida B. Wells [...]
This year marks the 80th year of The Mis-Education of The Negro by Dr. Carter G. Woodson, which was originally printed in 1933. It is an honor to share this information because this is the book that helped me knock off my blinders to my mis-education and the lack of progress in the education of [...]
As I watched the second Inauguration of President Barack Obama on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. day, I can honestly say that I was in historical awe. While most people were mesmerized by the “pageantry” (that was the most used word by news reporters) of the events, I was basking in the historical significance of [...]
You know I’m researching Chicago Roller Skating History and Black Roller Skating in Chicago, right? So, I’m stuck in the 1942 Chicago Defender because there was so much going on in this city and I have to check it out. The article from the June 20, 1942 issue stuck with me because it shows how [...]