Historianspeaks

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Our web platform is devoted to presenting complex portraits of the Black past and present. We publish blogs weekly. Visit us at historianspeaks.org. #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMatters #MaketheWorldBetter
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Bille Holiday and "Strange Fruit," 1939
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Bille Holiday and "Strange Fruit," 1939

On April 20th 1939, legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday stepped into a Fifth Avenue studio and recorded “Strange Fruit,” a song written by Jewish civil rights activist Abel Meeropol, a high school English teacher upset...

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Historianspeaks4h ago
"When A Holy Man Rises--" #PopeFrancis
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"When A Holy Man Rises--" #PopeFrancis

Mustafa Santiago Ali

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"#EarthDay-Untelevised”
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"#EarthDay-Untelevised”

Mustafa Santiago Ali

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Historianspeaks5h ago
A Global Vision Through Song: Music of the
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A Global Vision Through Song: Music of the

* Black World Music is about an acknowledgement of a culture. Black music is a global culture that has influenced other cultures and nations through music for generations. To many the idea of black music probably doesn’t...

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"Rise, Black Jesus"
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"Rise, Black Jesus"

Mustafa Santiago Ali

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Howard University Students and Thompson Restaurant , 1944
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Howard University Students and Thompson Restaurant , 1944

On 22 April 1944, 200 young Black people, mostly students at Howard University, held a sit-in demonstration at Thompson's, a segregated restaurant in Washington DC – where Jim Crow laws were not in effect but segregation...

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Milton Olive III, Awarded Congressional Medal of Honor, 1965
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Milton Olive III, Awarded Congressional Medal of Honor, 1965

On April 21st 1966, Milton Olive III became the first Black soldier awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War.

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Historianspeaks1d ago

"You don't have to box in the boxing ring to be a great fighter. As long as you are true to yourself, you will succed in your fight for that in which you believe."

Muhammad Ali

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HistorianSpeaks

Historianspeaks is a dynamic web platform devoted to making Black History accessible to the public. It includes a blog, podcast and audio and visual materials

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Historianspeaks1d ago
Vernon Johns, Black Theologian, Born in 1892
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Vernon Johns, Black Theologian, Born in 1892

OnThisDay in 1892, fiery civil rights pioneer Vernon Johns was born in Darlington Heights, Virginia, which is in Prince Edward County. He taught himself German and other languages so well that when the dean of Oberlin C...

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Historianspeaks2d ago

"To soar towards what's possible, you must leave behind what's comfortable."

Cicely Tyson

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HistorianSpeaks

Historianspeaks is a dynamic web platform devoted to making Black History accessible to the public. It includes a blog, podcast and audio and visual materials

HistorianSpeaks