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#BlackHistory #AfricanAmerican #Heroes #Inventors #GeorgeWashingtonCarver,#ClaudiaJones #BlackHistorymonth In 1926, the US historian Carter G Woodson, the son of former slaves, launched Negro History Week to commemorate important people and events from the African diaspora. “If a race has no history,” he said, “it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.” Renamed and expanded in the 1970s, what we now know as  Black History Month  has been celebrated in the UK since 1987. Q&A What is Black History Month? Show This year, as every year, the focus will be on pivotal and well-documented figures such as Martin Luther King, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. But there are others whose often radical work is frequently forgotten. In an effort to honour at least some of them, we asked black historians and cultural figures to nominate their own heroes and watershed events. Robert Wedderburn  by Kwame Kwe

#African-American  #BlackAmerican #Black History, #BlackHistorymonth The Greenwood District on the north side of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was once nicknamed the “Negro Wall Street,” because of its thriving black professional and business community. Segregated Greenwood was home to 10,000 people that included laborers, domestics, teachers, business owners, doctors, and lawyers. It had its own schools and churches. Overnight, though, from the evening of May 31 through the afternoon of June 1, 1921, white mobs roamed the area, destroying, looting and killing whatever or whoever was in their path. A black veteran, thinking the time serving his country would save him, put on his World War I uniform and stepped outside. He was shot dead. A nationally renowned physician, Dr. A.C. Jackson, was also killed when he stepped out on his porch with his arms raised. It’s been called the Tulsa Race Riots or the Greenwood Race Massacre. Today, nearly 100 years l