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Black History: Day 24
Boxx the Artist Keeping up with this artist was a fun challenge as she shows the world living out your dreams is possible & people are loving it. What inspired you to start working on your craft? Art was always embedded in me as a child, my grandmother would sit me in her room andContinue reading “Black History: Day 24”
Black History: Understanding the Racial Wealth Gap
The racial wealth gap has knowable historical foundations. Rooted in almost 400 years of slavery, dispossession and ongoing prejudice, the reality of economic inequality is rooted in our everyday lives, from inheritances to housing to debates about reparations.
Black History Facts
2024 Track & Field, Men’s 110m Hurdles Grant Holloway Grant Holloway has his Olympic gold medal. The three-time world champion in the 110m hurdles won silver in this event at the 2020 Tokyo Games, but he was on top of his sport in Paris, winning with a time of 12.99 seconds. Fellow American Daniel RobertsContinue reading “Black History Facts”
Black History: Racial Equity and Justice for All
Whether as laws, principles, or cultural practices, policies guide collective action and influence social norms. Anti-racist policies enact purposeful and ethical actions that promote racial equity and justice for all people.
Black History: Bridget “Biddy” Mason
A Woman of Independent Means In 1856, after Biddy Mason and her daughters gained their freedom, Mason’s daughter Ellen married a free man named Charles Owens, the son of a renowned businessman in the African American community of Los Angeles. Owens had helped Mason with her court petition and later invited her to live withContinue reading “Black History: Bridget “Biddy” Mason”
Black Poetry:Nikki Giovanni
Black History: Day 21
Colin Thompson/Cat TV A filmmaker on a quest to make sure there’s a vast selection of independent films to watch. from putting his footprint into…… Creating his newest film written by Willie Wunka Fireproof films, Ace Management, Deep Pocket Entertainment and Catv Productions…. doing their casting calls in Vegas August 15,2021 And adding to his collectionContinue reading “Black History: Day 21”
Black History Facts
Black History: The Rollin Salon
The birthplace of the Confederacy, South Carolina was also the center of major political changes that swept through the South after the Civil War. Under the 1867 Reconstruction Acts, Black men in former Confederate states gained the right to vote and hold elected office. In South Carolina, a state with a majority-Black population, voters electedContinue reading “Black History: The Rollin Salon”