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 slaveryElise Johnson McDougald—educator, writer, and activist for women’s rightsClement Morgan, a Harvard first, attorney and activistFrank Crosswaith, a prominent Socialist and labor activistAnna Murray Douglass, an abolitionist deserving wider recognition LAWButler Wilson, a leading attorney and civic activistJudge William Hastie, the first Black federal judgeConrad Lynn, a lawyer for the damnedMacon Allen, Our nation’s first Black lawyerCivil rights stalwart Constance Baker Motley and the first Black woman federal judge EDUCATIONAlexander Twilight, the first African-American college graduate in USEdward Bouchet, the first Black to earn a Ph.D. in AmericaDr. Maceo C. Dailey, eminent Black Studies teacher and historianDr. Benjamin F. Payton, esteemed leader and educatorA look at our historic Black colleges POLITICSDr. Margaret Just Butcher, educator and political activistRemembering Mayor David DinkinsBarbara Jordan: An American heroCarl B. Stokes, Cleveland’s first Black mayorBill Lynch, a political consultant nonpareil BUSINESSAnnie Turnbo Malone, trailblazing millionaire and beauty mavenH. Naylor Fitzhugh, the ‘dean of Black business’James Forten, early abolitionist and successful businessmanHenrietta Duterte, abolitionist and first woman owner of a funeral homeViolet T. Lewis, educational trailblazer and founder of Lewis College of Business NYC BLACK HISTORYThe history of Black firefighters in New YorkThe village in the parkSylvia Woods, the queen of soul foodA historic walk through HarlemSamuel J. Battle, New York City’s first Black man in blue 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 pressAlice Dunnigan, first Black female reporter to cover the White HouseT. Thomas Fortune, famed journalist and civil rights leaderTrailblazing African-American newsman Max RobinsonEthel L. Payne, ‘First Lady of the Black Press’ SPORTSDr. Robert Walter Johnson, the ‘godfather’ of Black tennisEmmett Ashford, the first Black umpire in the Major LeaguesGeorge Coleman Poage: The first Black OlympianToni Stone, first female professional baseball playerOlympic great Jesse Owens HEALTH/SCIENCEAnne Spencer, often forgotten poet of the Harlem RenaissanceDrs. Kenneth and Mamie Clark, pioneering psychologistsOlympic great and nurse, Willye B. WhiteBenjamin Banneker, the brilliant scientist and former freemanDr. Doris L. Wethers, led breakthroughs in sickle-cell anemia BLACK INVENTORSCCTV inventor Marie Van Brittan BrownCelebrating Black inventorsSarah Boone, inventor of the ironing board and first Black woman to get a patentFarmer and a pioneering inventor Henry BlairJames West, co-inventor of the modern day microphone MILITARYFirst Black fighter pilot, Eugene BullardMary Elizabeth Bowser, a spy during the Civil WarSandy Wills, a courageous soldier during the Civil WarWilfred DeFour, a valiant and vital Tuskegee AirmanWorld War II hero Carl E. Clark honored before his death ENTERTAINMENTBilly Graham, Marvel Comics’ first Black artistJosephine Baker, the ‘Bronze Venus’Wild about Eubie Blake, the great pianist and composerZelda Wynn Valdes, a dress designer of the starsA playwright of the ages, August Wilson Like this:Like Loading...
