COMMENTARY: Black History Month 2023—Resistance is RevolutionaryBlack History Month theme highlights Black ResistanceCarter G. Woodson: The father of Black History MonthBlack History and Culture Sites in NYC Grant students continue to celebrate Black History MonthBlack History Month: Improving health and wellness in our communitiesMalcolm X and Black Power politicsJoin NYC Parks for the Black History Month tribute: His & Her StoryWestbury Arts set to host 6th annual Black History Month Jubilee Celebration Black Resistance1963 was the pivotal year for civil rightsResistance and revolts: 5 significant uprisings by enslaved people in US historyRemembering the Newark UprisingAmNews Archives: 1963 March on WashingtonMore Than 60 Years Ago: Students Launched Sit-In MovementJo Ann Robinson, teacher and civil rights strategistThe Black Power salute at the 1968 OlympicsDenmark Vesey: Forgotten hero and architect of insurrection BLACK PIONEERSHomer Plessy, a civil rights activist who battled Jim Crow lawsThe Rev. Isaiah Dickerson, a relentless advocate for reparationsWilliam and Ellen Craft’s ingenious escape from slaveryFrank Crosswaith, a prominent Socialist and labor activistElise Johnson McDougald—educator, writer, and activist for women’s rights LAWConrad Lynn, a lawyer for the damnedMacon Allen, Our nation’s first Black lawyerCivil rights stalwart Constance Baker Motley and the first Black woman federal judgeButler Wilson, a leading attorney and civic activistJudge William Hastie, the first Black federal judge EDUCATIONAlexander Twilight, the first African-American college graduate in USDr. Maceo C. Dailey, eminent Black Studies teacher and historianDr. Benjamin F. Payton, esteemed leader and educatorEdward Bouchet, the first Black to earn a Ph.D. in AmericaA look at our historic Black colleges POLITICSRemembering Mayor David DinkinsCarl B. Stokes, Cleveland’s first Black mayorBarbara Jordan: An American heroDr. Margaret Just Butcher, educator and political activistBill Lynch, a political consultant nonpareil BUSINESSViolet T. Lewis, educational trailblazer and founder of Lewis College of BusinessJames Forten, early abolitionist and successful businessmanH. Naylor Fitzhugh, the ‘dean of Black business’Annie Turnbo Malone, trailblazing millionaire and beauty mavenHenrietta Duterte, abolitionist and first woman owner of a funeral home NYC BLACK HISTORYSamuel J. Battle, New York City’s first Black man in blueThe history of Black firefighters in New YorkA historic walk through HarlemSylvia Woods, the queen of soul foodThe village in the park WHAT IT TAKES PODCAST WHAT IT TAKES: Maya AngelouWHAT IT TAKES: Sidney PoitierWHAT IT TAKES: Ernest GainesWHAT IT TAKES: Coretta Scott KingWHAT IT TAKES: James Earl JonesWHAT IT TAKES: Archbishop Desmond TutuWHAT IT TAKES: Rosa Parks and Judge Frank JohnsonWHAT IT TAKES: Colin PowellWHAT IT TAKES: Andrew Young VIDEOS – New York State Museum The Powell Family Farmstead and the Importance of Place MLK Address to the New York State Civil War Centennial Commission The Fifty-Year Legacy of the Attica Prison Uprising Evidence of Slavery and Freedom Buried Beneath the Floor MEDIAEthel L. Payne, ‘First Lady of the Black Press’John B. Russwurm and Freedom’s Journal, the first Black newspaperEvelyn Cunningham, the grande dame of Black journalismWendell P. Dabney: Renaissance man and pioneer of the Black pressAlice Dunnigan, first Black female reporter to cover the White House SPORTSToni Stone, first female professional baseball playerOlympic great Jesse OwensEmmett Ashford, the first Black umpire in the Major LeaguesGeorge Coleman Poage: The first Black OlympianDr. Robert Walter Johnson, the ‘godfather’ of Black tennis HEALTH/SCIENCEDr. Harold Amos, the first Black microbiologistBenjamin Banneker, the brilliant scientist and former freemanOlympic great and nurse, Willye B. WhiteThe medical Northcross family of DetroitDr. Doris L. Wethers, led breakthroughs in sickle-cell anemia BLACK INVENTORSCCTV inventor Marie Van Brittan BrownSarah Boone, inventor of the ironing board and first Black woman to get a patentCelebrating Black inventorsJames West, co-inventor of the modern day microphoneFarmer and a pioneering inventor Henry Blair MILITARYDr. Olivia Hooker, first Black woman in the Coast Guard, eyewitness to Tulsa MassacreFirst Black fighter pilot, Eugene BullardThe Marines’ first Black pilot, Frank E. Petersen Jr.Wilfred DeFour, a valiant and vital Tuskegee AirmanSandy Wills, a courageous soldier during the Civil War ENTERTAINMENTFilm immortal, Hattie McDanielBilly Graham, Marvel Comics’ first Black artistA playwright of the ages, August WilsonJosephine Baker, the ‘Bronze Venus’Zelda Wynn Valdes, a dress designer of the stars Like this:Like Loading...
