“I sing their names . . .,” writes Kansas City poet Glenn North.
His words are one of several contemporary voices joined in a new, 44-page book that collects the more than 70 biographies that the Kansas City Black History Project team has researched and shared with the Kansas City community since 2010.
“I sing of… Langston and Parker, Ms. Bluford and Mary Lou, Old Buck, Leon Jordan, Horace and Bruce . . .”
Every year, the project told the stories behind seven or eight of the names hidden by time. It gathered them in booklets and posters that were given to schools, libraries and other public spaces used by teachers, librarians, mentors and parents to raise up a neglected history.
Black panthers transfer from Assam Zoo to Ambani owned zoo was through ‘barter policy : Assam Min
Guwahati, Feb 23 (UNI) Assam Environment and Forest Minister Parimal Suklabaidya today said that the transfer of two black panthers from Assam state Zoo to Reliance-owned Greens Zoological Rescue and the Rehabilitation Kingdom at Jamnagar in Gujarat was done following government policy of barter system of wildlife animals.
“The black panthers were sent to Jamnagar zoo in exchange for their help to bring four Zebras from Israel. Animal exchange is part of zoo management. We frequently undertake animal exchange programme with various zoos in the country and with zoo outside the country,” Mr Suklabaidya said an issue which has triggered a controversy ahead of Assembly elections slated in April.
Rod Benson: A conversation with Judas and the Black Messiah writer Keith Lucas about Black history
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This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Daniel Kaluuya in a scene from “Judas and the Black Messiah.” Kaluuya was nominated for a Golden Globe for best supporting actor in a motion picture on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, for his role in the film.Glen Wilson/Associated Press
In eighth grade, my social studies class was assigned a Houghton Mifflin textbook called “A More Perfect Union.” At this point, I can’t recall any details from it. Going by the name, I assume there was stuff about the American Revolution, the writing of the Constitution and maybe the 50 years that followed.
By Cherranda Smith
Feb 23, 2021
Innovation has been embedded in the very DNA of Black people everywhere for centuries. From making light shine, creating more efficient processes, and a variety of gadgets that have revolutionized how we live life, Black people have forged many inventions using the fortitude found throughout our history.
Often in our past, the deficit of representation, ongoing oppression, and sheer genius has conjured inspiration to make things that had not previously existed. There has also been times when our creations have gone uncredited, or without proper recognition.
Recently, the patent system in the US started tackling the striking underrepresentation of Black inventors in patent ownership. The racist roots of the system stem back to the 1850s when slave owners could receive patent ownerships on behalf of the enslaved person who actually made the invention, building a pipeline of erasure. The racist practices of the system continued well into the 1900