Sentences with phrase «of black history»

«Many of the worst parts of black history would have been impossible without police,» he said.

I was especially pleased that the author brought to light an important bit of black history with which I was unfamiliar.

While figures of black history won't be in the forefront of the news, you can keep learning by reading books.

The new Roots fulfills its primary obligation to be a compelling saga, doing what it can to reflect what the last 40 years have meant to our collective understanding of black history.

He could be describing instead a loss of black history.

February marks the annual celebration of Black History Month in the United States.

You'll also find more free cultural fun in celebration of Black History Month at the Wake County Commons Building, and you can catch a haywagon shuttle between the two locations.

In honor of Black History Month, Entrepreneur presents a list of some of history's most iconic black entrepreneurs.

It's the last day of Black History Month, but that doesn't mean the learning has to end until Black History Month 2019.

Liverpool FC is teaming up with the Football Association and the Liverpool County Football Association to host a coaches» celebratory evening in recognition of Black History Month.

Kimathi Coleman is helping to change this piece of black history in Memphis, Tennessee.

He incorporates elements of high and low art to explore the long - ignored narratives of black history within the context of Western art history, and faces head - on the disparities experienced between races in the United States, inviting viewers to reimagine their own past and present.

In honor of Black History month, VMFA will showcase both visual and performing African American artists.

Wed, October 14, 2015 Top 10 Vegetarian Meals at Walt Disney World Resort to Celebrate Vegetarian Awareness Month Lessons to Celebrate Black History Month February is the annual observance of Black History Month, a time to recognize the achievements, contributions, and

Most outstanding is the Library of Congress's African American Mosaic, with information on all issues related to the study of black history and culture.

The last in our series of Black History Month specials airs this Sunday, February 22 at 7 p.m. Join us for the American Radioworks broadcast «Say It Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity.»

Last year Vice President Mike Pence commemorated the start of Black History Month by acknowledging Abraham Lincoln, a white man, for submitting the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery.

«Black Panther» viewing parties are already being scheduled around the country for its February release, smack dab in the middle of Black History Month.

The theme of Black History Month this year is «The Crisis in Black Education.»

-- Contacting your pastor / church about Transit Equity & the beginning of Black History Month volunteering to help working parents with transpiration with before and after school care for children

Other works in Africans in America speaks to the interplay between memory and the depiction of black history in the United States and Africa.

Let Freedom Ring: Music & Poetry of Black History takes audience members on a journey from Africa through slavery to the Civil Rights movement and powerful voices of modern leaders (Boston)

A spokeswoman told the Recorder: «We understand the importance of Black History Month and celebrate this by studying the success and achievements of black role models.

The womanist theologian must search for the voices, actions, opinions, experience, and faith of women whose names sometimes slip into the male - centered rendering of black history, hut whose actual stories remain remote.

By uncovering as much as possible about such female liberation, the womanist begins to understand the relation of black history to the contemporary folk expression: «If Rosa Parks had not sat down, Martin King would not have stood up.»

Right now a celebration of Black History just feels necessary with everything thing thats been going on in the last year.

February 1: Join Historian Desiree Taylor as she shares the origins of Black History Month and explores its current cultural relevance (Boston)

The honorees spoke on the lessons of black history, particularly the discrimination they experienced growing up decades ago in New York City, and linked the struggles of old to the struggles of today.

On this first week of Black History Month, the bureau that promotes tourism locally is looking to stress the importance of Buffalo's African American heritage.

Hamilton has introduced legislation mandating the teaching of black history instruction in New York schools.

Inez Barron gave one of her mini-lectures to the Council yesterday, on the topic of Black History Month.

Eric H. Holder Jr. today urged employees to take advantage of black history month to begin a frank dialogue about race.

«Say It Loud» traces the last 50 years of black history through stirring, historically important speeches by African Americans from across the political spectrum.

Its dis - contest mentality carried off with a lively disregard for the demagogues of political correctness, the film reaches a pinnacle of sorts with Spalding Gray's bit as an unflappable Harvard professor of Black History.

Though #JusticeForFlint is notably taking place the same day as the Oscars, Coogler said in a statement that the benefit was scheduled to coincide with the last weekend of Black History month, and not meant to be a response to the Academy's ongoing issues with diversity.

«Hidden Figures» takes this underreported chapter of black history and makes it big, overplaying an already powerful scenario.

Black Panther's Marvelization of black history and anthropology is pathetic, and the Marvelizing of black imagination is appalling.

In a peculiar casting choice, Lee has the actor playing a community priest spouting facts to his congregation about per - capita income disparity, the prison industrial complex («mass incarceration is the new Jim Crow,» he spits into a microphone) and a brief overview of black history and oppression.

February has become the time when we move through the series of racial - pride programs that are the now - predictable agenda of Black History Month.

Also included are an educator's guide and a link to the companion film More Than a Month, which explores one man's goal to expand the appreciation of black history.

Often called the «Father of Black History,» Woodson chose February for this observance because the birthdays of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and President Abraham Lincoln fall in this month.

The assembly introduces pupils to the background of Black History Month.

Kick off your lesson with this video on the Origins of Black History Month, which discusses the man behind the movement, Dr. Carter G. Woodson.

A local entrepreneur working to erase the lines of inequality spent last month as one of the honorees of a Black History Month program.

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Manning Marable, the African - American author and historian whom the New York Times called «a leading scholar of black history,» passed away two weeks ago on April 1, at age 60.

With the arrival of Black History Month comes the expectation of a host of African - American books, geared not only to that unique, highly creative community but to the general population as well.

While some of the names may be unfamiliar, each subject's narrative is a nuanced portrayal meant to challenge our country's often narrow, dismissive version of black history.