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 PIONEERSClement Morgan, a Harvard first, attorney and activistThe Rev. Isaiah Dickerson, a relentless advocate for reparationsAnna Murray Douglass, an abolitionist deserving wider recognitionHomer Plessy, a civil rights activist who battled Jim Crow lawsElise Johnson McDougald—educator, writer, and activist for women’s rights LAWButler Wilson, a leading attorney and civic activistMacon Allen, Our nation’s first Black lawyerConrad Lynn, a lawyer for the damnedJudge William Hastie, the first Black federal judgeCivil rights stalwart Constance Baker Motley and the first Black woman federal judge EDUCATIONDr. Benjamin F. Payton, esteemed leader and educatorEdward Bouchet, the first Black to earn a Ph.D. in AmericaA look at our historic Black collegesDr. Maceo C. Dailey, eminent Black Studies teacher and historianAlexander Twilight, the first African-American college graduate in US POLITICSCarl B. Stokes, Cleveland’s first Black mayorBarbara Jordan: An American heroDr. Margaret Just Butcher, educator and political activistRemembering Mayor David DinkinsBill Lynch, a political consultant nonpareil BUSINESSAnnie Turnbo Malone, trailblazing millionaire and beauty mavenJames 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 BusinessH. Naylor Fitzhugh, the ‘dean of Black business’ NYC BLACK HISTORYThe history of Black firefighters in New YorkSamuel J. Battle, New York City’s first Black man in blueThe village in the parkSylvia Woods, the queen of soul foodA 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 MEDIATrailblazing African-American newsman Max RobinsonJohn B. Russwurm and Freedom’s Journal, the first Black newspaperAlice Dunnigan, first Black female reporter to cover the White HouseT. Thomas Fortune, famed journalist and civil rights leaderEvelyn Cunningham, the grande dame of Black journalism SPORTSDr. Robert Walter Johnson, the ‘godfather’ of Black tennisToni Stone, first female professional baseball playerOlympic great Jesse OwensGeorge Coleman Poage: The first Black OlympianEmmett Ashford, the first Black umpire in the Major Leagues HEALTH/SCIENCEAnne Spencer, often forgotten poet of the Harlem RenaissanceDr. Ruth Ella Moore, the first Black female natural scientistDr. Cornelius N. Dorsette, medical pioneer in the state of AlabamaDr. James McCune Smith, America’s first Black physicianMathematician Dorothy Vaughan, a pioneer in the Space Age BLACK INVENTORSSarah Boone, inventor of the ironing board and first Black woman to get a patentFarmer and a pioneering inventor Henry BlairCelebrating Black inventorsCCTV inventor Marie Van Brittan BrownJames West, co-inventor of the modern day microphone MILITARYWilfred DeFour, a valiant and vital Tuskegee AirmanDr. Olivia Hooker, first Black woman in the Coast Guard, eyewitness to Tulsa MassacreSandy Wills, a courageous soldier during the Civil WarFirst Black fighter pilot, Eugene BullardWorld War II hero Carl E. Clark honored before his death ENTERTAINMENTA playwright of the ages, August WilsonValaida Snow, ‘The Queen of the Trumpet’Zelda Wynn Valdes, a dress designer of the starsBilly Graham, Marvel Comics’ first Black artistJosephine Baker, the ‘Bronze Venus’ Like this:Like Loading...
