Tag: black history
March 3, 2015

A Little Girl’s Quest For Her History: Toussaint Louverture

Say hello to Majesteé, a thirteen year girl that wrote an impressive history paper on Toussaint Louverture, (May 20, 1743 – April 7,1803) the great Haitian general. Majesteé’s paper was so intriguing that she’s going to districts for a national history contest. She decided to write about the iconic general since its “Black History Month” […]
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January 21, 2015

The Bravery of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The three words that I think about when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. crosses my mind are: bravery, peace, and black history. There are times that I try to imagine myself with the brave heart to speak in front of hundreds of thousands of people. The patience to allow police to smack me across the […]
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May 26, 2014

The First Memorial Day Was Hosted By Former Slaves | Black History Lessons

The first observance of a Memorial Day-type observance after the Civil War was in Charleston, South Carolina, on May 1, 1865. For some reason the history of the African American soldiers have been omitted from the history classes of America. So how did Memorial Day come about you may ask? During the war, Union soldiers […]
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January 20, 2014

More Than A DREAM

Dreams are shattered everyday until special people with a knack for never giving up on a vision rise up to lead. Once a great man named of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. caused every voice to be lifted to sing in love, peace, and harmony in order to awaken a dream of unity that had […]
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February 26, 2013

Respect For Our Women – Black History

~ Question For Women ~ Since when is a woman’s value based on the shape of her backside or breasts? We have been psychologically induced to think that its ok to call our women a B#$%^ and to only view them as sexual objects. Each time we call our women a female dog we are […]
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