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Feb.25.2011 On Our Way I've been black a long time. So I can remember Negro History Week when pioneers like Harriet Tubman, George Washington Carver, W.E.B. Dubois, Benjamin Banneker and Sojourner Truth graced the bulletin boards of my 1960s classrooms. I also remember the times back when we were colored. I remember the...	Feb.14.2010 Harlem Renaissance Dialogues: Writing and Living Black History Following the publication of Facts on File's Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance by Sandra L. West, with a foreword by Clement Alexander Price, in 2003, a number of dialogues got underway about the famous 1920s to 1940s cultural movement. These dialogues have taken the forms of new books,...
Feb.02.2010 Breakthrough Artist Amiri Farris Launches Multimedia Black History Month Platform Works by the rising-star artist, musician, and poet Amiri Geuka Farris will go on display in not one or two, but three exhibitions in the U.S. Southeast during Black History Month 2010 and his new CD, The Weekend, will be released during the same period. Farris' work is currently on exhibit until...	Dec.16.2009 Author Toni Morrison's Passion for Historical Truth Revealed One of only a few living African-American authors whose Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning novels are studied regularly on a high school and university level, Toni Morrison has also written and edited influential nonfiction works, like The Black Book, by Middleton A. Harris. Originally published in...
Nov.26.2009 Little known story of Claudette Colvin featured in the New York Times The New York Times had a great story today about Claudette Colvin, a forgotten civil rights pioneer. Seem my earlier post for a great children's book about her by Phillip Hoose that just won the National Book Award. I don't mention the Colvin story in my book, Shadows of Youth, but she is part of...	Sep.05.2009 Michael Jackson: A Moonwalking Giant Lies Down to Rest While investigations surrounding the death of Michael Jackson steadily progressed and media frenzy over different facets of his life continued, the great entertainer and philanthropist himself was laid to rest September 3, 2009, at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Jackson's...