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 lawsClement Morgan, a Harvard first, attorney and activistFrank Crosswaith, a prominent Socialist and labor activistThe Rev. Isaiah Dickerson, a relentless advocate for reparationsWilliam and Ellen Craft’s ingenious escape from slavery LAWCivil rights stalwart Constance Baker Motley and the first Black woman federal judgeJudge William Hastie, the first Black federal judgeConrad Lynn, a lawyer for the damnedButler Wilson, a leading attorney and civic activistMacon Allen, Our nation’s first Black lawyer EDUCATIONDr. Benjamin F. Payton, esteemed leader and educatorA look at our historic Black collegesAlexander 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 historian POLITICSBill Lynch, a political consultant nonpareilBarbara Jordan: An American heroDr. Margaret Just Butcher, educator and political activistRemembering Mayor David DinkinsCarl B. Stokes, Cleveland’s first Black mayor BUSINESSH. Naylor Fitzhugh, the ‘dean of Black business’Violet T. Lewis, educational trailblazer and founder of Lewis College of BusinessJames Forten, early abolitionist and successful businessmanAnnie 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 blueSylvia Woods, the queen of soul foodThe village in the parkThe history of Black firefighters in New YorkA 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 MEDIAJohn B. Russwurm and Freedom’s Journal, the first Black newspaperWendell P. Dabney: Renaissance man and pioneer of the Black pressTrailblazing African-American newsman Max RobinsonAlice Dunnigan, first Black female reporter to cover the White HouseEthel L. Payne, ‘First Lady of the Black Press’ SPORTSGeorge Coleman Poage: The first Black OlympianOlympic great Jesse OwensToni Stone, first female professional baseball playerEmmett Ashford, the first Black umpire in the Major LeaguesDr. Robert Walter Johnson, the ‘godfather’ of Black tennis HEALTH/SCIENCEDr. Harold Amos, the first Black microbiologistDr. Doris L. Wethers, led breakthroughs in sickle-cell anemiaMathematician Dorothy Vaughan, a pioneer in the Space AgeOlympic great and nurse, Willye B. White‘Hidden Figures’ no more—Katherine Johnson and Mary Jackson of NASA BLACK INVENTORSSarah Boone, inventor of the ironing board and first Black woman to get a patentCCTV inventor Marie Van Brittan BrownFarmer and a pioneering inventor Henry BlairJames West, co-inventor of the modern day microphoneCelebrating Black inventors MILITARYSandy Wills, a courageous soldier during the Civil WarMary Elizabeth Bowser, a spy during the Civil WarWilfred DeFour, a valiant and vital Tuskegee AirmanFirst Black fighter pilot, Eugene BullardDr. Olivia Hooker, first Black woman in the Coast Guard, eyewitness to Tulsa Massacre ENTERTAINMENTFilm immortal, Hattie McDanielValaida Snow, ‘The Queen of the Trumpet’Wild about Eubie Blake, the great pianist and composerJosephine Baker, the ‘Bronze Venus’A playwright of the ages, August Wilson Like this:Like Loading...
