black history fun fact friday
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Black History Fun Fact Friday – Negro Spirituals
Welcome Back to Black History Fun Fact Friday. Today we’re talking about Negro Spirituals. “Go down Moses Way down in Egypt’s land Tell ole Pharaoh To let my people go!” When you take someone and make them a slave, the first thing you must do is take away their identity. Starting with the removal of… Continue reading
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Black History Fun Fact Friday – Women Poets
Good evening there loves. Yall miss me? No? Ok, whatever, I’m back. Tonight’s Black History Fun Fact Friday is Women Poets. In honor of the release of my third poetry book collection on 3.31.15, we’re going to look at some of the black women poets who inspire me and have made such an impact on… Continue reading
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Black History Fun Fact Friday – Jazz
Welcome back to another episode of Black History Fun Fact Friday. So, I wanted to present music in general for you this morning. But the African American contribution to music is too far reaching to cover ever genre in one post. Black people have had influence on almost every kind of music there is, for… Continue reading
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Black History Fun Fact Friday: Inventions
Welcome back to another episode of Black History Fun Fact Friday. I know I know, the sun will be setting soon but, better late than never right? 🙂 Tonight we’ll be looking at: 12 Black Inventors You May Not Know. I was surprised to find that many of them either died recently (2000-) or are… Continue reading
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Black History Fun Fact Friday – Convict Leasing
Welcome Back everyone to another episode of Black History Fun Fact Friday! Where we present movies, products, books, audio, or article Fun Facts on a portion of the History of African American people. We cover all things Archeological, Biblical, Historical, and most importantly, Factual. Today marks our 4th week into the series and we’d… Continue reading
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Black History Fun Fact Friday
Hello there loves, and welcome back to Black History Fun Fact Friday the one day we set-apart to highlight some of the most influential African American men and women of time. *************** Today’s Black History Fun Fact is the movie Panthers, the 1995 document of The Black Panther Party as narrated by Kadeem Hardison as… Continue reading
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Black History Fun Facts: Hair Story
Today’s Post is part of a weekly series on The PBS Blog that will take place from now on through February: Black History Fun Facts. During this series, I will post some fun facts about a portion of African American History, ranging from Archaeological, Cultural, Biblical, and Historical facts every Friday. I will also extend… Continue reading
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