by LaKisha | Feb 11, 2020 | Black History
Black History Month is celebrated in February. It honors the accomplishments of black Americans but also highlights the struggles that we endured to carve out a piece of America for us. I am extremely proud to be a black American and look forward to celebrating black...
by LaKisha | Feb 1, 2020 | Black History
Black History Month is an annual celebration started by Carter G. Woodson, a historian and one of the founders of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). He initially decided that the second week of February would be “Negro History...
by LaKisha | Feb 13, 2019 | Black History
1670 Zipporah Potter Atkins – The first free African American woman to own land in Boston 1760 Jupiter Hammon – First African American published author; poem “An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ with Penitential Cries” 1768 Wentworth Cheswell –...
