Archive for the ‘Black HER/HIStory’ Category

• June 28, 2010 Black HERstory: Lorraine Hansberry posted in Black HER/HIStory tagged 29 Years Old, 5th Woman to Receive the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, A Raisin in the Sun, Broadway, Cancer, Chicago, Gifted and Black, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Nina Simone, Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson, Paul Robeson, Playwright, Southside Native, Southside of Chicago, To Be Young, W.E.B. DuBois, Woodlawn Chicago, Writer
• May 31, 2010 Black HIStory: Lt. James L. McCullin posted in Black HER/HIStory, Memorial Day, Seasonal Sustenance tagged 99th Fighter Squadron, B-52, Black Pilot, Bombers, Brave, Bravery, Dead, Escort, Fighter Pilot, First Black Pilot Killed, German Fighters, Lt. Col. Benjamin O. Davis, Lt. James L. McCullin, Lt. Sherman H. White Jr., Memorial Day, Military, Pilot, Sicily, Soldier, Thank You, Tuskegee Airmen, World War II
• April 18, 2010 Black HERstory: Freda Josephine McDonald posted in Black HER/HIStory, Tender Vittles tagged 1925, 1931, 1951, 1963, 1968, 1975, Banana Dance, Banana Skirt, Bi-Sexual, Black Pearl, Broadway, Bronze Venus, Cerebral Hemorrhage, Christian Dior, Civil Rights, Coretta Scott King, Créole Goddess, Croix de Guerre, Diana Ross, Ernest Hemingway, Erotic Dancing, es Bergère, F. Scott Fitzgerald, France, Freda Josephine McDonald, French Military Honors, French Resistance, Frida Kahlo, Grace Kelly, Harlem Renaissance, Integrate, Jackie Onassis, Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, Lize Minnelli, March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr., Mick Jagger, Missouri, Muse, NAACP, Pablo Picasso, Paris, Shirely Bassey, Sophia Loren, Spy, St. Louis, Stork Club, Street Corner Dancer, Vaudeville, World War II
• April 6, 2010 Black HIStory: Nat Turner posted in Black HER/HIStory, Tender Vittles tagged 1828, 1831, 56 Blacks Executed, 56 Deaths, 70 Enslaved & Free Blacks, August 21st, Captured, Convicted, Flayed, Former Slave, Hanged, Hero, Intelligent, Margret Whitehead, Militias, Mob, Nathaniel "Nat" Turner, November 5 1831, October 30th, Pan-Africanists, Quartered, Religious, Runaway, Samuel Turner, Slave, Slave Rebillion, Slavery, Solar Eclipse, Virginia, Visions
• April 1, 2010 Black HERstory: Jackie “Moms” Mabley posted in April Fools Day, Black HER/HIStory, Humour, Seasonal Sustenance tagged $10 000, 1950's, 1960's, 1962, 75 Years Old, Apollo, Apollo Theater, April Fools Day, Bedraggled, Carnegie Hall, Chitlin Circuit, Connie's Inn, Ebony Magazine, Floppy Hat, Funn, Funniest Woman in World, Harlem, Jackie "Moms" Mabley, Loretta Mary Aiken, Moms, On Stage Persona, Racism, Rape, Top 40 Hit, Vaudeville
• March 31, 2010 Black HIStory: Roberto Clemente Walker posted in Black HER/HIStory tagged Amateur League, Athlete, Baseball, Carolina, Crash, Earthquake, Gold Glove Award, Hall of Fame, Humanitarian, Latino, Major League Baseball, Managua, Nicaragua, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Pirates, Plane, Puerto Rican, Puerto Rico, Right Fielder, Roberto Clemente Walker, Softball, Somoza, World Series, Youngest
• February 28, 2010 Black HIStory: Joseph Louis Barrow posted in Black HER/HIStory, Seasonal Sustenance tagged $100 000, 17 Years Old, 1932, 1950, 60's, African American, Alabama, Amateur, Bacon Casino, Black Champion, Boxer, Boxing, Brewster Street, Champion, Championship, Civil Rights, Debut, Detroit, Golden Gloves, Harlem Renaissance, Heavyweight, IRS, Jack Johnson, Jack Kracken, James J. Braddock, Joe Louis, Johnny Miller, Joseph Louis Barrow, Langston Hughes, Light-Heavyweight, Max Schmelling, Pugilist, Reign of Terror, Rematch, Speech Impediment, Tax Bill, Taxes, The Brown Bomber, The Great Depression, Uncle Sam, Uncle Tom, W.P.A., World War II
• February 25, 2010 Black HERstory: Dorthy West posted in Black HER/HIStory, Seasonal Sustenance tagged 1926, 1998, Challenge, Dorothy West, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, Margaret Walker, Miniseries, National Urban League, New Challenge, Opportunity, Oprah Winfrey, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, The Kid, The Living Is Easy, The Wedding, The Wedding Story, Zora Neale Hurston
• February 22, 2010 Black HIStory: El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz posted in Black HER/HIStory, Seasonal Sustenance, Tender Vittles tagged 1925, 1964, 4 Little Girls, African American, Audubon Ballroom, Baptist, Black Nationalist, Black Pride, Boston, Breaking & Entering, Cassius Clay, Communist, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, Elijah Muhammad, FBI, Gambling, Grenada, Hajj, Human Rights, John Elton Bembry, John F. Kennedy Assassination, Larceny, Louis Farrakhan, Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, Masschusetts State Prison, Medgar Evers, Mental Hospital, Muhammad Ali, Muslim, Nation of Islam, Nebraska, Omaha, Pan-African, Patrice Lumumba, Racketeering, Robbery, Sawed-Off Shotgun, Scottish, Steering Prostitutes, Sunni Muslim, UNIA, Warrior
• February 15, 2010 Black HERstory: Ethel Waters posted in Black HER/HIStory, Seasonal Sustenance tagged 1949, Academy Award Nominee, All Hallow's Eve, Bessie Smith, Blues, Broadway, Childhood, Duke Ellington, Ethel Waters, Fletcher Henderson, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, His Eye is on the Sparrow, IRS, Lovie Austin, Member of the Wedding, Philadelphia, Pinky, Rape, Robbery, Vocalist, Will Marion Cook
• February 12, 2010 Black HIStory: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela posted in Black HER/HIStory, Seasonal Sustenance, Tender Vittles tagged 1948, 1990, 1993, Afrikaner, Anti-Apartheid, Apartheid, Armed Struggle, Arrested, CIA, Convicted, Multi-Racial Democracy, National Party, Nelson Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, Nobel Peace Prize, Non-Violent Resistance, Paarl, Racial Segregation, Rivonia Trial, Robben Island, Sharpeville Massacre, South Africa, South African, Terrorist, Treason, Treason Trial
• February 10, 2010 Black HERstory: Althea Gibson posted in Black HER/HIStory, Seasonal Sustenance tagged $1 Million, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, Althea Gibson, Athlete, Color Barrier, Golf, Grand Slam, Jackie Robinson, No.1, Pioneer, Serena Williams, Singer, Stroke, Suicide, Tennis, Trailblazer, U.S. Open, United States Tennis Association, Venus Williams, Welfare
• February 9, 2010 Black HIStory: Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks posted in Black HER/HIStory, Seasonal Sustenance tagged 1971, 25 Years Old, Activist, American Gothic, Blaxploitation, Childhood, Civil Rights, Ella Watson, Essence, Farm Security Administration, Film, Freedom, FSA, Gordon Parks, Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks, Harlem, Joe Louis, Life, Marva Louis, Migrant Workers, Photographs, Photography, Photos, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Racism, Richard Roundtree, Shaft, Super Fly, Teenage, The Learning Tree, Voigtländer, Washington D.C.
• February 9, 2010 Black HERstory: Elaine Brown posted in Black HER/HIStory, Seasonal Sustenance tagged Black Liberation, Black Panther, Black Panther Party, Black Power, Cuba, Elaine Brown, Free Breakfast for Children Program, Free Busing to Prisons Program, Free Legal Aid Program, Ghetto, Green Party, Harambee, Huey P. Newton, Iraq, Jay Kennedy, New Age Racism, North Philadelphia, Oakland City Council, Patriarchy, Private School, Regina Davis, Sexism, Sieze the Time, Social Paradox, Social Progress, Strip Club, Temple University, Until We Are Free
• February 7, 2010 Black HIStory: Matthew Alexander Henson posted in Black HER/HIStory, Seasonal Sustenance tagged A Negro Explorer at the North Pole, Accolades, American Flag, Bronx, Cabin Boy, Colleague, Customs House, Eisenhower, Expedition, Inuit, Matthew Alexander Henson, North Pole, Robert Peary, Seamanship, Taraji P. Henson, Truman, Vivien Thomas
• February 6, 2010 Black HERstory: Zora Neale Hurston posted in Black HER/HIStory, Seasonal Sustenance tagged Alice Walker, Anthropologist, Barnard College, Booker T. Washington, Charlotte Hunt, Communism, Essay, Feminist Individualism, Florida, Folklorist, Harlem Renaissance, How It Feels to Be Colored Me, Howard University, New Deal, Novelist, Obscurity, Old Right, Play, Republican, Short Stories, Social Conservative, Sorority, The Hilltop, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zeta Phi Beta, Zora Neale Hurston
• February 5, 2010 Black HIStory: Fred Hampton posted in Black HER/HIStory, Seasonal Sustenance tagged Athlete, Black Panther, Champion, Chicago, Civil Rights, Education, Empowerment, FBI, Fred Hampton, Gunfire, Illinois, Maywood, Murder, Officers, People, Raid, Revolt, Revolution, Revolutionaries, Student, Young Lion, Youth
• February 3, 2010 Black HERstory: Wilma Goldean Rudolph posted in Black HER/HIStory, Seasonal Sustenance tagged Basketball, Bronze, Chicken Pox, Edward S. Temple, French, Gold, Gold Medals, Italian, Measles, Melbourne, Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson, Polio, Renaissance Man, Rome, Scarlet Fever, State Champion, Survivor, Tennessee State, Track, Whooping Cough, Wilma Goldean Rudolph
• February 2, 2010 Black HIStory: Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson posted in Black HER/HIStory, Seasonal Sustenance tagged Anti-Colonialism, Athlete, Civil Rights, Columbia, Film, Harry Belafonte, International Activism, Law School, Lawyer, Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson, Play, Red Scare, Scholar, Sidney Poitier, Socialism, Theater, World Peace
• February 1, 2010 Black HERstory: Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm posted in Black HER/HIStory, Seasonal Sustenance tagged Brooklyn, Congress, Congresswoman, Democratic, Presidential Candidate, Shirley Chisolm