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Lesa Cline-Ransome’s new novel in verse adds female voices to the late-19th-century Black homesteaders movement.

Dr. Charles H. Wright said his mission was “ensuring that generations, especially young African Americans, are made aware of and take pride in the history of their forebears.”

Dr. Charles H. Wright said his mission was “ensuring that generations, especially young African Americans, are made aware of and take pride in the history of their forebears.”

For Black and Caribbean Americans, so much of the meaning of home has been ruptured because of slavery and what happens when people are forcibly uprooted from their homes. Descendants from enslaved Africans most often lost that connection to their geographical lineage. It’s contributed to the inability of Black people to find cocoons in the […] The post Without a Sense of Home, Black America’s Mental Health Suffers appeared first on Capital B News.

Trenton ASALH chapter honors supreme educator Carter Woodson

Nevada Humanities, in collaboration with Core Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Nevada, Reno, The Humanities Center at Great Basin College, and with the Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies at UNLV, welcomes author and historian Isabel Wilkerson to a keynote talk.

In the Directory for Worship of the Book of Order, the charge, as a part of the act of sending, is described in this way: “We are blessed to be a blessing to others...”

On Wednesday, April 19th at 7pm, join Massy Arts Society, Massy Books and the Beaumont Studios for Speaking the Unspeakable: Black Migration, Living Transformations, an evening of conversation in celebration of Suzette Mayr’s new award-winning book The Sleeping Car Porter.

Giller Prize winner talks sleeping car porters, Black and queer history with Hogans Alley activist

Calgarians Robert Brawn, Elizabeth Cannon, Eleanor Chiu, Cheryl Foggo and Art Froehlich are being invested as new members.