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Wordless Wednesday: The Tuskegee Institute Choir, 1933
Black on Campus | October 14th 2008 by Ajuan Mance
(Click to Enlarge) Source: William Levi Dawson Collection at Emory University Posted by Ajuan Mance a2a_linkname="Wordless Wednesday: The Tuskegee Institute Choir, 1933"; a2a_linkurl="http://blackoncampus.com/2008/10/14/wordl read more
Anthony Robbins Has A Big Heart
Empowerment God's Way | October 11th 2008 by Carla P. Jewel
One of the most inspiring people who has touched millions of lives is Tony Robbins. Tony Robbins has been a longtime inspirations to all cultures of people. He has encouraged people who have felt lost while struggling to bring their dream into a r read more
When it Comes to Alpha Kappa Alpha, Ms. Magazine Gets It Right
Black on Campus | October 10th 2008 by Ajuan Mance
In 1908, a mere 43 years after slavery was abolished in the United States, one year before the NAACP was founded in response to lynching and race riots, and during the rise of feminism and the suffragist movement, 16 young women — juniors and s read more
Tyler Perry Opens New Studio in Atlanta
on the black hand side | October 9th 2008 by Vanessa
Tyler Perry opened his new studio in Atlanta with all the grandeur one would expect from him. Celebrities such as Will Smith, Oprah Winfrey, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee and Cicely Tyson were among the star-studded guests. Perry, who was once... read more
The Quotable Black Scholar: Green Polonius Hamilton
Black on Campus | October 9th 2008 by Ajuan Mance
No people can be sure of impartial history if the narrators ot their history are members of a different race, with views and traditions that are diametrically opposite and often inimical to the interests and welfare of those whose history they are to read more
Wordless Wednesday: Mary McLeod Bethune, Founder of Bethune-Cookm…
Black on Campus | October 8th 2008 by Ajuan Mance
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Tyler Perry Makes History with His New Movie Studio..
Hip Candy | October 5th 2008
[via People Magazine]History was made Saturday night, when Tyler Perry became the first African-American ever to launch his own major TV and film studio.But that wasn't the only reason Will Smith was tipping his hat to Perry at the gala Atlanta event read more
Wordless Wednesday: DuBois at Nineteen
Black on Campus | October 1st 2008 by Ajuan Mance
1887 (Photo Source: W.E.B. DuBois Library, U Mass Amherst) Posted by Ajuan Mance a2a_linkname="Wordless Wednesday: DuBois at Nineteen"; a2a_linkurl="http://blackoncampus.com/2008/09/30/wordless-wednesday-dubois-in-his-youth/"; read more
Talking Points: W.E.B. DuBois on Materialism
Black on Campus | September 30th 2008 by Ajuan Mance
W.E.B. DuBois (1868 - 1963) If you tonight suddenly should become full-fledged Americans; if your color faded, or the color line here in Chicago was miraculously forgotten; suppose, too, you became at the same time rich and powerful; — what is read more
Black American collectables
How To Build A Website | September 25th 2008
The history of the United States contains immigration of many ethnicities. It already started tens of thousands of years ago, when prehistoric Asian hunter-gatherers crossed the dry land that would later become the Bering Sea, and eventually spread o read more
Wordless Wednesday: Morris Brown Baseball Team
Black on Campus | September 24th 2008 by Ajuan Mance
A vintage photograph of the Morris Brown College baseball college. This photo dates from the early 1899 or 1900. Morris Brown College was founded in 1885, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Reproductio read more
Why Not A Black Man?
Being Free | September 24th 2008 by Free
As you can probably tell, this was sent to my email & I just copied and pasted it right over (with my no-formatting behind!) I wish I knew who was responsible so I could give credit... read more
The Great Black Vote
Electronic Village | September 24th 2008 by Wayne Hicks
Villagers, this is one of the most important national elections of our lifetime. Don't miss it. Please ensure that you are registered to vote! read more
The Quotable Black Scholar: Charles Hamilton Houston
Black on Campus | September 22nd 2008 by Ajuan Mance
Charles Hamilton Houston and his parents, William LaPre and Mary Ethel Houston. Houston’s father was an attorney. His mother was a college-educated teacher. (Source: Blight, David. The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, No. 34 [Winter, 2001 read more
Wordless Wednesday: Mary Jane Patterson
Black on Campus | September 17th 2008 by Ajuan Mance
Mary Jane Patterson (d. 1894) Mary Jane Patterson is very likely the first African American woman to graduate from a U.S. college or University. The photograph above depicts Ms. Patterson in 1862, the year that she graduated from Oberlin College. Aft read more
The Quotable Black Scholar: Beverly Daniel Tatum
Black on Campus | September 15th 2008 by Ajuan Mance
Beverly Daniel Tatum (b. 1954) I also think of a conversation with a fellow student in graduate school, a Black man I did not know well. We were waiting for a bus, and he asked me what I was going to be doing when I finished graduate school. I told h read more
Wordless Wednesday: William Matthews and Harvard Baseball Team
Black on Campus | September 10th 2008 by Ajuan Mance
Harvard University Baseball Team, 1904. William Matthews (no. 11, front row) was one of a small number of Black students attending majority white institutions in the early 20th century. Born in Selma, Alabama, he attended Tuskegee Institute for four read more
The Troubling Case of William Hallett Greene
Black on Campus | September 9th 2008 by Ajuan Mance
William Hallett Greene (CUNY class of 1884) Brooklyn Ron (brooklynron.com) offers a moving and detailed account of the disturbing events that shaped the life of William Hallett Greene, the first African American to graduate from CUNY/City College in read more
Wordless Wednesday: Wilberforce’s First Black President
Black on Campus | September 4th 2008 by Ajuan Mance
Bishop and Mrs. Daniel Payne (For larger image, click on photo above) In 1863 Bishop Daniel Payne, Wilberforce benefactor and 7-year trustee, succeeded Richard Rust to become its second president, and the first African American college president in U read more
The Ku Klux Klan
World War 1 & 2 and European History with book reviews | September 3rd 2008 by Ollie
After the American Civil War in the Reconstruction Era, a group named the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was founded by veterans from the Confederate Army in 1865. The name Ku Klux Klan is derived from the Greek word ‘kyklos’ (κυκλος) meaning & read more
The Jim Crow Laws
World War 1 & 2 and European History with book reviews | September 3rd 2008 by Ollie
From 1877 until 1965, many states in the USA instituted what were known as the Jim Crow Laws which segregated blacks and whites in daily life. The origin of the name is unclear, but it is thought that it may have come from a song called ‘Jump J read more
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
World War 1 & 2 and European History with book reviews | September 3rd 2008 by Ollie
From the late 19th Century, until the mid-1960s, the Jim Crow Laws in the USA stipulated racial segregation on public transport. By the 1950s, blacks had significantly more freedom than they had had in previous decades; however, they still experience read more
Dr Martin Luther King Jr
World War 1 & 2 and European History with book reviews | September 3rd 2008 by Ollie
One of the most recognized persons during the Civil Rights Movement, Dr Martin Luther King Jr. , most famous for his ‘I have a dream’ speech, won the support of thousands of African-Americans in his personal campaign for equal rights betw read more
Beautiful Tragedy
Beautiful Imperfection | September 2nd 2008 by Rochelle Harris
Note: I revised the poem “Beautiful Tragedy” by dropping and adding a few words, and dropping the last stanza. Click one of the images below to see a handwritten version of this journal entry. september_2_2008 Page/Scan (1) sep read more
The Obamas and DNC ‘08
on the black hand side | September 1st 2008 by Vanessa
Regardless of your political party affiliation, if you are black you had to feel a sense of pride in Barack Obama and his family during the Democratic National Convention in Denver. The event was first-class all the way, or at... read more
Question 24: Brothaz on Stampz
Ask Blackie | September 1st 2008 by Ask Blackie
This week Jamal talks about the first Black person to be honored on a US Postage Stamp. read more
Serial killer on the loose in California, police say
Cash Gifting and Latest News Weblog | August 30th 2008 by Ms. Livingston
For 23 years, a serial killer has been killing only black women in the Los Angeles and Inglewood area. This is the most shocking news while our 2008 election is going on. This serial killer is taking these women and dumping them on the side of the read more
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wordhigh.com Web Buffet | August 28th 2008
Faith’s present owner Jude Stringfellew has given up her teaching post and plans to take him around the world to preach that ‘even without a perfect body, one can have a perfect soul’. He was even considered to appear in one of Harry Pott read more
The Quotable Black Scholar: Fanny Jackson Coppin
Black on Campus | August 28th 2008 by Ajuan Mance
Fannie Jackson Coppin (1837 - 1913) We do not ask that anyone of our people shall be put into a position because he is a colored person, but we do most emphatically ask that he shall not be kept out of a position because he is a colored person. ̵ read more
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