black history
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Black History Fun Fact Friday – The Fultz Sisters
As a twin, I could not help but be attracted to this story, and as I studied their life in preparation for writing this article, it wouldn’t take long for me to see the red flags. From the media perspective, you’d think the quads and their families were wealthy, with a house on 150-acres of… Continue reading
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Unfamiliar Faces – Lost to History: Afro Puerto-Ricans, Cubans, Jamaicans, Haitians
Though many students will learn about slavery in the U.S. at some point, our teachings are usually narrow in that we only learn about the European Slave Trade and the wrongs that Europeans have done. We won’t be told that we weren’t just dropped off in America. We won’t be told that every people, from… Continue reading
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This Month in Black History – September
This month sped by so fast I almost missed this month’s history wrap up! ****** September 5, 1859 – Harriet Wilson’s novel Our Nig is published September 8, 1965 – Dorothy Dandridge found dead September 8, 1986 – The Oprah Winfrey Show debut September 9, 1739 – The Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in… Continue reading
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This Month in History – August
1834 – Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire – Slavery Abolition Act 1833 came into effect. August 2, 1850 – The start of The Underground Railroad, a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century enslaved people in the United States in efforts to escape to free states and Canada. The Underground… Continue reading
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Unfamiliar Faces – Lost to History: Before Parks
“They said they didn’t want to use a pregnant teenager because it would be controversial and the people would talk about the pregnancy more than the boycott,” Colvin says. – https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-43171799 Was Rosa Parks the only woman to refuse to give up her seat on a segregated bus? Below are a few of the women… Continue reading
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Tales of African American History Found in DNA
Very interesting article. Check it out: “The history of African Americans poses special challenges for geneticists. During the slave trade, their ancestors were captured from genetically diverse populations across a portion of West Africa. Adding to the complexity is the fact that living African Americans also may trace some of their ancestry to Europeans and… Continue reading
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Black History Fun Fact Friday – Medical Apartheid
This Week’s episode of Black History Fun Fact Friday is the recommendation of Harriet Washington’s Groundbreaking book Medical Apartheid. Medical Apartheid is about the deliberate infection of people with deadly or debilitating diseases, exposure of people to biological and chemical weapons, human radiation experiments, injection of people with toxic and radioactive chemicals, surgical experiments, interrogation… Continue reading
