Posts Tagged ‘Rosa Parks’
Barbie unveils Maya Angelou doll
As Black History month approaches, Mattel has unveiled Maya Angelou as the newest member of its Inspiring Women Collection. Angelou is only the 10th woman in the role model line of Barbies that includes Rosa Parks, Ella Fitzgerald and Florence Nightingale. The Maya Angelou doll holds a miniature replica of her prolific autobiography, “I Know…
Read MoreDetails about Recy Taylor
Oprah Winfrey has every woman speaking Recy Taylor’s name following her 2018 Golden Globe Awards acceptance speech. Taylor was only 24-years-old when she was violated and gang-raped by six armed White men. Taylor was on her way home from church in Abbeville, Alabama, that dreadful evening on Sept. 3, 1944. Adding insult to injurious and…
Read MoreDetroit Tigers owner quietly paid Rosa Parks’ rent
It was widely known that Little Caesars founder and Detroit Tigers and Detroit Red Wings owner Mike Ilitch was a philanthropist. What most of us didn’t know is that he was particularly fond of late Civil Rights activist and icon Rosa Parks. Ilitch, 87, died Friday, Feb. 10, 2017. The billionaire started paying Parks’ rent…
Read MoreWe did it! Harriet Tubman to replace Andrew Jackson on $20 bill
UPDATE Wednesday, April 20, 2016: Treasury Secretary Jack Lew will announce Wednesday that abolitionist Harriet Tubman will replace former President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. The long-awaited decision keeps Alexander Hamilton, one of the U.S. founding fathers, on the front of the $10 bill — though suffragists who fought to give women the right…
Read MoreBlack history, prison, led to change agents in the Black community
“From oppressive and crippling surroundings, George Washington Carver lifted his searching, creative mind to the ordinary peanut, and found therein extraordinary possibilities for goods and products unthinkable by minds of the past, and left for succeeding generations an inspiring example of how an individual could rise above the paralyzing conditions of circumstance.” –Dr. Martin Luther…
Read MoreBecause of Rosa Parks, we can
“Because of Rosa Parks, we can face our fears and boldly walk in the direction of our dreams.” Credit: Because of Them We Can/YouTube
Read MoreTarget Corporation wins lawsuit over ownership of name and image of Rosa Parks
The name of Rosa Parks is one that is known internationally and now the Target Corporation is making money off of it.. Parks famously was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a White man in segregated Montgomery, Alabama. This act of civil disobedience resulted in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the rise…
Read MoreRosa Parks honored by the city of Dallas
Tuesday, Dec. 1, marked the historic day Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public city bus to a White man in 1955. Now, in honor of the 60th anniversary of that historic event, Dallas Area Rapid Transit has remembered Parks in a significant way. This week, The Dallas Area Rapid Transit, aka…
Read MoreHappy birthday Rosa Parks! Sheila Keys celebrates her aunt’s legacy with new book
When Sheila McCauley Keys sat in her fourth grade class one day, she instantly recognized a familiar face in the textbook. It was Auntie Rosa. But that isn’t how the teacher referenced her father’s sister.
Read MoreThe Black Heritage Exhibition in Chicago helps preserve Black culture
Christ Universal Temple Church had the honor of hosting the Black Heritage Exhibition this past weekend. The exhibit included multiple oil, acrylic and pen and ink painting styles that documented the oppression of Black people and our ancestral roots. They told a triumphant story of perseverance and highlighted the work of our noble scholars who…
Read More5 prominent people who were eulogized by the Rev. Al Sharpton
Al Sharpton delivered the eulogy for slain teen Michael Brown at the Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis, Missouri. For Rev. Sharpton, it was another moment for him to speak at a funeral that has drawn tremendous media attention. Here are five prominent people that were eulogized by Rev. Sharpton.
Read MoreCivil rights icon Rev. T.J. Jemison dies at 95
Statement by the President on the Passing of Civil Rights Leader Rev. T.J. Jemison Longtime Louisiana pastor Rev. T.J. Jemison who advised Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the Montgomery, Ala. bus boycott in 1953 has died in Baton Rouge, La. Jemison, 95, died of natural causes Nov. 15 at a hospital in Baton…
Read MoreAKAs, Deltas, Zetas attend Hampton University’s commencement ceremony
Hampton University’s graduates wore their colors with pride — Alpha Kappa Alpha, Zeta Phi Beta and Delta Sigma Theta’s wore kente stoles to represent their sororities this past weekend. A few famous AKAs: Toni Braxton, Jada Pinkett Smith, Maya Angelou, Phylicia Rashad, Toni Morrison, Iyanla Vanzant, Alicia Keys, Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King. A…
Read MorePresident Obama honors Rosa Parks at statue unveiling in U.S. Capitol
Rosa Parks was the right woman, for the right time, in the right place. Fifty-eight years after the quiet, unassuming seamstress refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Ala., bus, Parks was posthumously honored by President Obama with the first-ever full-length statue for a black woman inside the…
Read MoreChildren pose as black history icons (photos)
Eunique Jones Gibson photographs children posed as figures in black history.
Read MoreLil Wayne, Emmett Till and a coward’s response to controversy
Lil Wayne’s degrading Emmett Till analogy is regrettable and outrageous. His response to Till’s family is even worse.
Read MoreCongress to unveil statue of Rosa Parks in the National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol
As of last year, the United States Congress had an approval rating of around 11 percent. The current Congress will probably go down in history as one of the most dysfunctional and ineffective groups in American history. In 2012, Congress only passed 61 bills out of 3,914 bills that had been introduced by lawmakers, or…
Read MoreWhitlow’s Barber Lounge in Detroit: A cultural masterpiece and legendary landmark
Vonzie Whitlow has barber’s clippers and the Civil Rights Movement in his DNA. And he combines his love of sculpting hair with his passion for social and cultural improvement, and that’s why the Whitlow’s Barber Lounge has become a community institution and historic landmark in the city of Detroit. For the past half-century, Whitlow’s…
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