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African American History is American History 2015 commemorates A Century of Black Life, History, and Culture. The goal is to publish a commemorative piece of work everyday that honors and reflects an under-recognized facet of an African American in your community.

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The White House Hosted 51 Black Female Dancers to Celebrate Black History Month

http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/02/white-house-hosted-51-black-female-dancers.html

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The Badass Wife of W.E.B. Du Bois

http://www.ozy.com/flashback/the-badass-wife-of-web-du-bois/62667?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=US

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Future Black History Month: The Importance of Kendrick Lamar

To kick off our Future Black History Month series, we're honoring an essential musical artist already making history on his own terms.

http://www.fuse.tv/2016/01/future-black-history-month-kendrick-lamar

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Jitterbugging in a juke joint, Saturday evening, outside Clarksdale, Mississippi. November, 1939.

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Civil Rights Leaders Remembered In Atlanta's Street Names

Back in the days of black-and-white television, Atlanta was separated – physically, economically and socially – along color lines. Atlanta's Sweet Auburn n

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Colonel Ruth Alice Lucas (November 28, 1920 – March 23, 2013), the first African American woman in the Air Force to be promoted to the rank of colonel

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New York Times unveils lost snapshots of black history 

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“Jackie Ormes (1911-1985) was the first Black woman to create, write and draw her own syndicated comic strip in the United States. For those who read and enjoy comics, you may realize that there are not a lot of female creators working on prominent characters for DC Comics and Marvel. However, in the 1930s, Ormes (born Zelda Mavin Jackson), was making a comic strip before Batman and Superman became the cultural icons they are now. 

Ormes’ first comic strip was published in the all-Black newspaper the Pittsburgh Courier from 1937-38.  This strip showed the great migration of African-Americans moving to the North to escape the Jim Crow South. Torchy Brown is a teenage girl from Mississippi who goes to Harlem to find fame as a singer and dancer.“-Atlantablackstar.com  2015

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Josephine Holloway

She established one of the first African American Girl Scout troop in 1942 after trying for years to start a troop. In 1944, she was hired by the Cumberland Valley Girl Scout Council (in Nashville,TN) to act as a field adviser for all the African American Girl Scout troops. She remained in that position until she retired in 1963. In 1951, integration started for the Girl Scouts of Cumberland Valley. Holloway’s office was moved to the Councils building. In 1962, integration officially started when the council got rid of its “Negro district”.

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It’s an election year, so this Black History Month, here’s a throwback to Hiram R. Revels, the first African American to serve in the United States Senate in 1870, pictured here with his family.

Image from the @schomburgcenter via @nypl.

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No Meekness Here: Meet Rosa Parks, 'Lifelong Freedom Fighter'

http://www.npr.org/2015/11/29/457627426/understanding-rosa-parks-as-a-life-long-freedom-fighter

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Fifteen Black Entrepreneurs Make a Big Deposit In A Black-Owned Bank

Ron Busby is the leading voice supporting Black banks and businesses in America today. He hopes that he can continue to inspire young Black men and women to support the Black community by investing in themselves and their communities.

http://financialjuneteenth.com/fifteen-black-entrepreneurs-make-big-deposit-black-owned-bank/

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Poet Robin Coste Lewis evokes the black female form across history

"Voyage of the Sable Venus," the first collection from Robin Coste Lewis, is the winner of this year's National Book Award for poetry. Lewis discussed her debut, her readers and her influences with Jeffrey Brown at the Miami Book Festival.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/poet-robin-coste-lewis-evokes-the-black-female-form-across-history/

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Great vintage photo of African American Buffalo soldiers during the Spanish American War, circa 1898. Via Pinterest

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MISS BLACK HOLLYWOOD | 1920s

Evelyn Preer (1896–1932) was one of the first African American silent screen actors to transition into sound Hollywood films, She was known within the black community as “The First Lady of the Screen.”

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Civil Rights Pioneer Gloria Richardson, 91, on How Women Were Silenced at 1963 March on Washington

Fifty years ago this week, Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, A Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin and other civil rights leaders spoke at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. But where were the female civil rights activists? At the historic march, only one woman spoke for just more than a minute: Daisy Bates of the NAACP. Today we are joined by civil rights pioneer Gloria Richardson, the co-founder of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee in Maryland, which fought to desegregate public institutions like schools and hospitals. While Richardson was on the program for the March on Washington, when she stood to speak she only had a chance to say hello before the microphone was seized. Richardson is the subject of a pending biography by Joseph R. Fitzgerald, “The Struggle is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation.” Richardson, 91, joins us to discuss the 1963 March on Washington and the censorship of women speakers; the Cambridge Movement to desegregate Maryland; her friendship with Malcolm X; and her assessment of President Obama and the civil rights struggle today.

More info on Gloria Richardson.

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Real life “Rosie the Riveter” - Tennessee, 1943.

From the Library of Congress collection, 1930’s-1940’s in Color.