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          #BlackHistorymonth #AfricanAmerican #CarterWoodson Black History Month in the United States is one of those periods whose origins are near-mythical narratives. This is apart from the fact that its ubiquity means we do not usually ask how it began. For millions of young people, African Americans and otherwise, the celebrations have always been there. They are tradition. What happens in February can be traced to the early 20th-century intellectual activism of historian  Carter Woodson  who is also credited as a pioneer of what is now known as African-American studies. Woodson was born into an impoverished home in New Canton, Virginia in 1875. He was only able to earn a high school diploma at age 20, a process delayed by his family’s poverty. He then took up teaching and subsequently furthered his education at the Berea College in Kentucky as well as the University of Chicago earning undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. He was the second Afri

#BlackHistorymonth #Netflix #Movies #AfricanAmerican Black History Month is here and there’s a huge amount of content in film, songs, and literary works to commemorate the efforts and achievements of African Americans. In inclusion to Google dropping its campaign business in occasion with this thirty days, the Emmy-winning membership solution features introduced its formal black colored prospects set of movies in honor of this next 28 times. Here are seven films that members would be the many stoked up about. Ali The 2001 biographical recreations crisis stars Will Smith as boxing legend, Muhammed Ali. The movie shows 10 years of Ali’s life – from 1964 to 1974. Some of this significant places Ali focuses on are their capture of this heavyweight title from fellow boxer Sonny Liston, their religious transformation to Islam, their community critique for the Vietnam War that triggered significant backlash, their banishment from boxing, their return boxing-in 1971, and f

#BlackHistory #BlackHistorymonth #AfricanAmerican #Google  The most searched performance. The most searched tap dancer. The most searched poet. The most searched talk show. The results? Agents of change, or as Google has deemed them: Black history makers. Google’s new progressive Black History Month video is based on 15 years of search data collected from 2004 through July 2019 -- showcasing the most searched topics and consequently the iconic results and their contribution to history. “There are moments in history that captivate us all," reads the video’s introduction before flashing to Beyonce’s Coachella show, the most searched performance on the platform. In seconds, the ad rewinds to the past showing Prince, the most searched guitar solo and highlights famed poet Maya Angelou. Nearly a minute into the video, viewers are introduced to the most searched NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, her contributions to the space agency highlighted in the 2016 film “Hidd

#AfricanAmerican #BellHooks #Love #Respect  #WhereWeStand  #ClassMatters  "Love is a combination of six ingredients: care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust". Bell Hooks A writer, teacher and cultural critic, bell hooks is best known for her work examining systems of domination, especially racism and patriarchy, and how they may be overcome. She has published more than twenty books, including  Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black; Killing Rage: Ending Racism , and  Where We Stand: Class Matters . hooks says that uncovering and naming the forms of oppression in our society is an extension of her lifelong curiosity about love and her desire to see love manifested. “Perhaps the most common false assumption about love is that it means we will not be challenged or changed,” she once wrote in the Buddhist magazine   Shambhala Sun . “When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to thin

# WhitePrivilege  #IbramXKendi  #ElijahCummings  #AfricanAmerican #Blackmen  #Racism  By Ibram X. Kendi   Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University   theatlantic.com Like so many other black men in America, Elijah Cummings died too young. I had a 30-minute ride to the train station. I nestled into my seat, opened my phone, and saw that Representative Elijah Cummings had passed away. I gasped and covered my mouth. The driver peeked at me in his rear-view m irror. He saw me shaking my head and whispering what many Americans whispered last Thursday:  He was only 68 . My mind turned to my father, whom I had just left at a hotel in Princeton, New Jersey. Dread burned in my chest. To get my mind off my father’s mortality, I started reading obituaries for Cummings, who will lie in state today at the U.S. Capitol. The more I learned about the gentleman who would not yield, the more my chest burned for his family, for my family—for a