By Tanesha Peeples, Deputy Director of Outreach for Education Post I swear I wasn’t trying to…
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Black History
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I was gifted an advanced screening of “Judas and the Black Messiah” earlier this week and…
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On January 7, 1891, Zora Neale Hurston was born to John Hurston, a carpenter and Baptist preacher, and Lucy Potts Hurston, a former schoolteacher. Born in Notasulga, Alabama, Hurston was the fifth of eight children.
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“My dad taught us ‘you are as good as anybody in this town, but you’re no better,’” Johnson told NASA in 2008. “I don’t have a feeling of inferiority. Never had. I’m as good as anybody, but no better.”
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How much do we know about black history? I mean how much do we really know? You might be rolling your eyes thinking: Obviously, we know about black history, it’s Black History Month for goodness’ sake!
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George Washington Buckner, an African-American physician and diplomat wrote an analysis in St. Louis Argus, on June 24, 1921, an African-American newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri alleging that the massacre was planned. Below is an excerpt of his 1924 write-up.
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I found a society of Black people who did more than assimilate into Victorian society. They expanded what black and Victorian culture looked like. Thus they proved that cultural identity and personal identity cannot be confined or solely defined by skin tone. This sparked a fervor in me to further immortalize these people through the power of the portrait.