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12 Things The Negro Must Do

Posted in African American, Community, History, Men, Politics, Racism, Slavery, The Americas, Women on March 30th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment
Nannie Burroughs

Found an Interesting post today called 12 Things The Negro Must Do – How Not To Become Scapegoats For Degenerate Black Community Behavior. It was written in around the turn of the last century by a woman called Nannie Helen Burroughs. Nannie Helen Burroughs - Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961) was an educator, orator, religious leader and businesswoman who ...

Remembering John Hope Franklin

Posted in African American, Community, History, Law and Order, Politics, Racism, The Americas on March 29th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment
John Hope Franklin

  Oklahoma and the country have lost a “great man”.  John Hope Franklin, revered historian and tireless advocate for equality, died this morning of congestive heart failure.  He was 94.  FOX 23’s Douglas Clark has more on Franklin's extraordinary life.   Friends describe him as someone who was shy and didn’t particularly like a lot of attention.  But ...

Pioneering African American Cartoonists

Posted in African American, Arts, Books, History on March 7th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment
spt_alston

During the segregated years of the 1900 through 1960s America, the Black Press offered comic strips that featured African American heroes & heroines in a wide variety of life situations. These characters were not confined to gritty 'inner-city' stories, poor 'ghetto' life or as one dimensional comic relief as today . Just as the 'mainstream' carried ...

Black Canadians – An overview

Posted in History, Politics, The Americas on March 6th, 2009 by Maurice2014 – 2 Comments
black Canadianhistory

Black Canadians in Canada: Total Population of Canada: 30+,000,000 Number of Black People living in Canada: 670,000 Percentage of Canadian Population that's Black: 2% Percentage of the Black Canadian Population living in: - Toronto - 47% - Montreal - 20% - Ottawa - 6% - Vancouver - 3% - Halifax - 2% Where Black Canadians ...


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