Henry “Box” Brown (Black History 365)

BlackHistoryFact: In 1849 Henry “Box” Brown mailed himself to freedom from Richmond, Virginia to the Anti Slavery Office in Philadelphia. The delivery took 26 hours and he later became a public speaker and abolitionist.

Bridges (Black History 365)

This painting was created by Norman Rockwell which depicts a six-year-old Ruby Bridges with U.S. Marshall’s as she makes her way to the then all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans Louisiana. We’ve had many iconic black individuals who have made contributions and advancements to the civil rights movement during their adult life but […]

Basquiat (Black History 365)

To start the new month of February we’re in Black History month but from my perspective, the totality of the black experience cannot be appreciated in a month and most certainly not during the shortest month of the year. Why is it on the shortest month? I wish I knew but I have a hunch […]

The Malian Empire: Mansa Musa (Black History 365)

So, we’re about to enter the month of February and it’s a month the U.S. “celebrates” a so- called Black History month when this history should be celebrated, taught and remembered throughout the year hence why on my last two posts depicting black history I had Black History 365 as part of the title. Also […]

A look inside MLK JR Day

We celebrate the day and life of Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr and everything he stood for when it came to gaining the civil liberties of black people and helping to end segregation, but there is something about him that had to change because his passive-aggressive mentality when it came to dealing with […]

Old Aunt Jemima (Black History 365)

We’ve all seen, used, and have tasted the joy of creating pancakes from an Aunt Jemima pancake mix or using the maple syrup, but as with other products that depicted black figures for consumer sale it has some unsettling history behind it. The Aunt Jemima that we see on grocery store shelves is a modern […]

Black Wall Street (Black History 365)

Not many are too familiar with Black Wall Street or the Rosewood Massacre that happened in Florida during the early 1920s but that’s another story, in this post I’m going to explain and explore the history behind Black Wall Street. If you’re familiar with the background of the incident that eventually occurred which was the […]