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W.E.B. Du Bois
Black Fact of the Day: Thursday August 27, 2020 – Brought to you by Black365
August 27, 2020
Black Fact of the Day: Thursday August 27, 2020 – Brought to you by Black365
W.E.B. Du Bois, Pan Africanist, author, historian, & Harvard grad, passed away in Ghana, where he was a citizen, 1963
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Ford Fund Teams Up with the California African American Museum to Kick off Men of Courage Greater Los Angeles Barbershop Challenge
February 27, 2020
Ford Motor Company Fund, the philanthropic arm of Ford Motor Company, is joining forces with the California African American Museum (CAAM) to offer community focused barbershops in the Greater Los Angeles area the opportunity to compete for a $10,000 grant.
The Storied History of the NAACP
July 25, 2019
The NAACP plans to highlight 110 years of civil rights history, and the current fight for voting rights, criminal justice reform, economic opportunity and education quality during its 110th national convention now happening in Detroit.
NAACP Celebrates 110th Anniversary of Freedom Fighting
February 21, 2019
“Had there been no May 17, 1954 (the day the Supreme Court ruled in Brown V. Board of Education), I’m not sure there would have been a Little Rock. I’m not sure there would have been a Martin Luther King Jr., or Rosa Parks, had it not been for May 17, 1954. It created an environment for us to push, for us to pull,” Lewis said.
Ghana Rolls Out the Red Carpet to Encourage Resettlement in the Motherland
February 8, 2019
In the heart of Accra, Ghana’s capital, just a stone’s throw from the U.S. embassy, lie the tombs of civil rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois and his wife, Shirley. The founder of the NAACP settled in the city’s serene residential area of Labone and lived there until his death in 1963.
Poverty Isn’t a Privilege: The White Man is Your Brother Too
January 29, 2019
Writing to fellow clergy from a Birmingham Jail (The Negro Is Your Brother), Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – gravely concerned about all who were poor and experiencing inequality – said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
Towards the Mountaintop: Commemorating Dr. King
August 22, 2018
“Towards the Mountaintop: Commemorating Dr. King” is a live stage event to honor the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s passing and the 55th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
W.E.B. DU BOIS’ PROVOCATIVE VIEWS ON POLITICS, VOTING, AND NOT VOTING
June 14, 2018
Du Bois’ views were also well timed because they came the week before California’s presidential primary
This Week in Black History (July 6th – July 12th)
July 13, 2017
She served as New Jersey’s commissioner of athletics from 1975 to 1985.
How did a famed painting of Frederick Douglass go missing?
September 7, 2016
More than 50 years later, the prized portrait is gone