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 PIONEERSWilliam and Ellen Craft’s ingenious escape from slaveryThe Rev. Isaiah Dickerson, a relentless advocate for reparationsElise Johnson McDougald—educator, writer, and activist for women’s rightsHomer Plessy, a civil rights activist who battled Jim Crow lawsAnna Murray Douglass, an abolitionist deserving wider recognition LAWButler Wilson, a leading attorney and civic activistMacon Allen, Our nation’s first Black lawyerCivil rights stalwart Constance Baker Motley and the first Black woman federal judgeJudge William Hastie, the first Black federal judgeConrad Lynn, a lawyer for the damned EDUCATIONAlexander Twilight, the first African-American college graduate in USA look at our historic Black collegesDr. Benjamin F. Payton, esteemed leader and educatorEdward Bouchet, the first Black to earn a Ph.D. in AmericaDr. Maceo C. Dailey, eminent Black Studies teacher and historian POLITICSBarbara Jordan: An American heroRemembering Mayor David DinkinsDr. Margaret Just Butcher, educator and political activistBill Lynch, a political consultant nonpareilCarl B. Stokes, Cleveland’s first Black mayor BUSINESSJames Forten, early abolitionist and successful businessmanAnnie Turnbo Malone, trailblazing millionaire and beauty mavenH. Naylor Fitzhugh, the ‘dean of Black business’Violet T. Lewis, educational trailblazer and founder of Lewis College of BusinessHenrietta Duterte, abolitionist and first woman owner of a funeral home NYC BLACK HISTORYThe history of Black firefighters in New YorkThe village in the parkSylvia Woods, the queen of soul foodSamuel J. Battle, New York City’s first Black man in blueA historic walk through Harlem 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 MEDIAEvelyn Cunningham, the grande dame of Black journalismTrailblazing African-American newsman Max RobinsonJohn B. Russwurm and Freedom’s Journal, the first Black newspaperWendell P. Dabney: Renaissance man and pioneer of the Black pressT. Thomas Fortune, famed journalist and civil rights leader SPORTSGeorge Coleman Poage: The first Black OlympianToni Stone, first female professional baseball playerDr. Robert Walter Johnson, the ‘godfather’ of Black tennisOlympic great Jesse OwensEmmett Ashford, the first Black umpire in the Major Leagues HEALTH/SCIENCEBenjamin Banneker, the brilliant scientist and former freemanMary Eliza Mahoney, the nation’s first Black professional nurseDr. Myra Adele Logan, first woman to perform open-heart surgeryDr. Doris L. Wethers, led breakthroughs in sickle-cell anemiaDr. Ruth Ella Moore, the first Black female natural scientist BLACK INVENTORSFarmer and a pioneering inventor Henry BlairSarah Boone, inventor of the ironing board and first Black woman to get a patentCCTV inventor Marie Van Brittan BrownCelebrating Black inventorsJames West, co-inventor of the modern day microphone MILITARYThe Marines’ first Black pilot, Frank E. Petersen Jr.Dr. Olivia Hooker, first Black woman in the Coast Guard, eyewitness to Tulsa MassacreWorld War II hero Carl E. Clark honored before his deathSandy Wills, a courageous soldier during the Civil WarMary Elizabeth Bowser, a spy during the Civil War ENTERTAINMENTValaida Snow, ‘The Queen of the Trumpet’Film immortal, Hattie McDanielBilly Graham, Marvel Comics’ first Black artistWild about Eubie Blake, the great pianist and composerA playwright of the ages, August Wilson Like this:Like Loading...
