Last Updated: February 10, 2020
Black History Fun Fact Friday was a new element of The PBS Blog that first began as a desire to highlight certain aspects of black history per Black History Month three years ago (2015). I discontinued the series for my inability to keep up with it and, therefore, stay consistent. Though publishing one post every week, this segment takes up a lot of time as it requires lots of research (sometimes requiring me to read whole books first and double-check facts.) To make a long story short, I couldn’t produce articles on a consistent and weekly basis. As a result, I created this page to help those new to this blog to stay updated on all of the Black History posts from that time.
As of Friday, October 28, 2016, I re-launched Black History Fun Fact Friday, which now includes a new badge:
I will continue in the same way as before. Black History articles covering a wide range of historical facts (to include black biblical history) will be published to this blog every Friday (time permitting), and the links will appear here so you can always come back and reference them. Below are the articles I wrote so far going back to 2015. The earlier articles did not go as in-depth but as we get closer to 2018 you’ll see that I have begun to dig deeper and to include more information. You can find the newer posts are in their respective years. If you find certain links don’t work, the article may have been reblogged and the link has not been updated. Please use the contact form on this blog to let me know or simply comment below so I can update the links to any articles that are not linking back properly.
2015
Week 7: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Week 10: Jazz (and the introduction of the new badge!)
2016
Week 14: 3 Facts You Should Know about the Black Panthers
Week 16: The Chicago Black Renaissance
Week 17: The Inspiration Behind Renaissance: The Nora White Story
2017
Week 18: 5 Harlem Renaissance Women You Probably Don’t Know
Week 20: The Origins of Black History Month
Week 21: The First Black Public School
Week 26: Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
Week 31: Inventors / Inventions
Week 32: Capturing the Good in Harlem
Week 34: Historic Rivals: W.E.B. Dubois vs. Booker T. Washington
Week 35: A Brief History of Race Riots in America
Week 36: Eugenics and The Caged Man
2018
Week 37: How I Almost Learned an “African” Language
Week #41: The Community of Africa Town
Week #42: Beatrice Davidson Kenner
Week #43: Dr. Sonnie Wellington Hereford III
Week #44: William Monroe Trotter
Week #46: Black Wall Street and the Power of Community
Week #47: The Atlanta Child Murders
Week #50: Lessons from Spike Lee’s Blackkklansman
Week #51: Georgia’s School-Prison for Black Boys
Week: 52: Dr. Joseph N. Jackson
Week #53: The Short Violent Life of Robert ‘Yummy’ Sandifer: So Young to Kill, So Young to Die
Week #54: Benjamin Montgomery and a Word of Caution on Black History Memes
2019
Week #56: Phillip L. Downing and the First Mailbox
Week #57: Research Links and Book Recommendations
Week #58: Esther Georgia Irving Cooper
Week #59: 3 Little Known Fun Facts about Dr. King
Week #60: The Truth about Uncle Tom
Week #61: The End of Enslavement and Reconstruction
Week #63: The Inspiration of Alex Haley’s Roots
Week #64: “In Africa they Didn’t Teach About the Enslavement of Our People”
Week #65: What Hollywood Left out the Harriet Movie
2020
Week #66: Marital Relationships During Slavery
Week #67: Behind the Original “Friends”
Week #68: Benjamin Banneker: Time Well Spent
Week #69: Beyond Selma: The Civil Rights Movement in Jacksonville, FL
Oh, definitely continue this feature! Please do consider adding more facts about the history of the African diaspora as well as African-American history.
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I definitely plan to. As soon as I’m at a place to stay consistent, its on.
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