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 lawsElise Johnson McDougald—educator, writer, and activist for women’s rightsClement Morgan, a Harvard first, attorney and activistAnna Murray Douglass, an abolitionist deserving wider recognitionWilliam and Ellen Craft’s ingenious escape from slavery LAWMacon Allen, Our nation’s first Black lawyerCivil rights stalwart Constance Baker Motley and the first Black woman federal judgeConrad Lynn, a lawyer for the damnedJudge William Hastie, the first Black federal judgeButler Wilson, a leading attorney and civic activist EDUCATIONA look at our historic Black collegesEdward Bouchet, the first Black to earn a Ph.D. in AmericaDr. Benjamin F. Payton, esteemed leader and educatorAlexander Twilight, the first African-American college graduate in USDr. Maceo C. Dailey, eminent Black Studies teacher and historian POLITICSBill Lynch, a political consultant nonpareilDr. Margaret Just Butcher, educator and political activistBarbara Jordan: An American heroRemembering Mayor David DinkinsCarl B. Stokes, Cleveland’s first Black mayor 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’Henrietta Duterte, abolitionist and first woman owner of a funeral homeAnnie Turnbo Malone, trailblazing millionaire and beauty maven NYC BLACK HISTORYSylvia Woods, the queen of soul foodSamuel J. Battle, New York City’s first Black man in blueA historic walk through HarlemThe history of Black firefighters in New YorkThe 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 MEDIAWendell P. Dabney: Renaissance man and pioneer of the Black pressEthel L. Payne, ‘First Lady of the Black Press’Trailblazing African-American newsman Max RobinsonEvelyn Cunningham, the grande dame of Black journalismJohn B. Russwurm and Freedom’s Journal, the first Black newspaper SPORTSEmmett Ashford, the first Black umpire in the Major LeaguesGeorge Coleman Poage: The first Black OlympianDr. Robert Walter Johnson, the ‘godfather’ of Black tennisOlympic great Jesse OwensToni Stone, first female professional baseball player HEALTH/SCIENCEThe medical Northcross family of DetroitThe Rev. James Gloucester: abolitionist, church leader and herbalistDr. James McCune Smith, America’s first Black physicianDr. Myra Adele Logan, first woman to perform open-heart surgeryOlympic great and nurse, Willye B. White BLACK INVENTORSCCTV inventor Marie Van Brittan BrownJames West, co-inventor of the modern day microphoneSarah Boone, inventor of the ironing board and first Black woman to get a patentCelebrating Black inventorsFarmer and a pioneering inventor Henry Blair MILITARYMary Elizabeth Bowser, a spy during the Civil WarDr. Olivia Hooker, first Black woman in the Coast Guard, eyewitness to Tulsa MassacreWilfred DeFour, a valiant and vital Tuskegee AirmanFirst Black fighter pilot, Eugene BullardWorld War II hero Carl E. Clark honored before his death ENTERTAINMENTBilly Graham, Marvel Comics’ first Black artistA playwright of the ages, August WilsonJosephine Baker, the ‘Bronze Venus’Valaida Snow, ‘The Queen of the Trumpet’Wild about Eubie Blake, the great pianist and composer Like this:Like Loading...
