(ThyBlackMan.com) This is a revisiting of an early and ongoing conversation about the shared meaning of Kwanzaa, its particular cultural message to African people, and its core values that speak to the best of what it means to be African and human in the world and for the world. It ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Black poetry has always been a powerful medium through which African Americans have expressed their pain, joy, struggle, and triumph. From the times of slavery to the present day, Black poets have used their words to challenge oppression, celebrate their culture, and inspire future generations. This article will delve ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Here we go, grab your popcorn as we will take a look down memory lane to check out some big moments in the past half-century of Black History. We’re taking a groovy ride through some standout steppingstones along the long and winding road to equal opportunity. We’ll revisit some ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Would you be surprised if you learned that Black History week, which would eventually become Black History Month, was meant in part to be a time whereby the community could share what it’s learned. Meaning we were supposed to be gathering knowledge throughout the year, and then we could ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Did you know that Black History Month was once Negro History Week? The first Negro History Week was established on February 7, 1926, by Dr. Carter G. Woodson, the second African American to get a Ph.D. in history after Dr. WEB DuBois earned him in 1895. Woodson said that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the mid to latter part of the twentieth century in the US you could rarely go to a city or county in the South that didn’t have a school named after George Washington Carver. Even during the days of virulent racial oppression and caste, George Washington Carver was ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Over the years, I have shared information about the accomplishments of Africans that largely go unrecognized and overlooked due to a deliberate campaign to suppress, obfuscate and ignore African people and our history. For example few people know Africans were the first boat builders, the first navigators of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As we engage the 2024 ASALH Black History Theme: “African Americans and the Arts”, it is important to approach it as a celebration, invitation and opportunity to remember and reflect on the essential and enduring role art has played in our lives and struggle to be ourselves and free ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many, if not most, African Americans are believed to be of partial Native American ancestry. William Loren Katz in Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage explored the roots of this Black and Native American admixture. Black contact with Native Americans goes back long before the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth. In ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Each August, this month of memory and marking of heightened struggle, we inevitably and unavoidably turn towards Haiti in rightful remembrance and homage. We rightfully remember, raise up and reflect on its glorious history of waging and winning a revolutionary and world transforming liberation struggle. And we also raise ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Call us “black”, even though we are not the color of our shoes, belts and car tires. Call us “negro”. Call us “Afro-American”. But hesitate to and avoid calling us African-American, unless you just have to? Why? Because there is a fear that America has about the real identity ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Do we really know what the past was, what actually happened, or is history “a fable” not quite “agreed upon”? Our knowledge of any past event is always incomplete, probably inaccurate, beclouded by ambivalent evidence and biased historians, and perhaps distorted by our own patriotic or religious partisanship. “Most history ...