The Evolution of Black Music
Duke Ellington PHOTO COURTESY OF BRITANNICA.COM Courtesy of lifeculturepeople.com WHERE IT ALL STARTED: BLUES & NEGRO SPIRITUALS Remember the days when music embodied real life …
Posts in category Black History
Black Wall Street
Blacks being taken to the Brady Theater during the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot. PHOTO COURTESY OF COMMUNIQUE NEW ENGLAND By DAPHNE TAYLOR The History: “Greenwood” …
Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Part II
Attorney Fred Gray PHOTO COURTESY OF INSIDER By JAY REEVES Associated Press [Editor’s Note: Part I covered the 1932 actions of medical workers in the …
Archaeologists seek downed WWII Tuskegee Airman’s plane
The Tuskegee Airmen flew missions in Europe during WWII. Airman Capt. Lawrence Dickson, with the 332nd Fighter Group of the 100th Fighter Squadron crashed on …
Tuskegee Syphilis Study descendants emerge, Part I
In this 1950′s photo released by the National Archives, a black man included in a syphilis study has blood drawn by a doctor in Tuskegee, …
DC’s hottest ticket? African American History Museum
National Museum of African American History and Culture PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA By BETH J. HARPAZ AP Travel Editor The hottest ticket in Washington, D.C., …
Remembering history and black public health champions
Booker T. Washington PHOTO COURTESY OF HISTORY.COM Staff Report Courtesy of Black PR Wire In April of 1915, Booker T. Washington pro “National Negro Health …
Woman who lived in former slave cabin visits Smithsonian
Woman who lived in former Edisto Island slave cabin visits Smithsonian. PHOTO COURTESY OF AMERICAN HISTORY THROUGH AN AFRICAN AMERICAN LENS By JESSE J. HOLLAND …
Students get history lesson from John Lewis
John Lewis PHOTO BY KEVIN HICKS OF SOUTH FLORIDA TIMES By ISHEKA N. HARRISON iharrison@sfltimes.com MIAMI – Over 1,200 Miami-Dade students got a first-hand history …
A bittersweet anniversary inspires, compels, empowers
Dr. Maya Angelou COURTESY OF HISTORY THINGS By DINIZULU GENE TINNIE Special to South Florida Times Of course, every date on the calendar, like every …