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February 1 Langston Hughes *African-American writer James Mercer Langston Hughes was born on this date in 1902. He was an influential figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's. Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri and educated at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. He published his first poem, The Negro Speaks of Rivers, in Crisis magazine in 1921 while studying at Columbia University. Hughes spent time in Paris and after returning to the United States, he worked as a busboy in Washington, D.C. It was there in 1925, that his literary skills were discovered after he left three of his poems beside the plate of American poet Vachel Lindsay, who recognized Hughes's abilities and helped publicize his work. Langston Hughes was active in social and political causes, using his poetry as a vehicle for cultural protest. He traveled to the Soviet Union, Haiti, and Japan, and he served as the Madrid correspondent for a Baltimore, Maryland newspaper during the Spanish Civil War. Hughes wrote over 50 books and his drama Mulatto was performed 373 times on Broadway. Hughes also became known for the character Jesse B. Simple that he created in the 1940's for the Chicago Defender & New York Post. The humor and dialect of Jesse Simple disguised his common sense while depicting the everyday American experiences of Black citizens. Hughes wrote in several literary genres including poetry, plays, short stories and novels. He is best known for his poetry, using jazz and Black folk rhythms in his work, ignoring classical forms in favor of the oral and improvisational traditions of Black culture. Langston Hughes died in 1967.

  Mighty One, I agree with you 100% . So I just wanted to share one of my heroes with you.. I think you know why.

Peace, honor and blessings to you and yours.

Excellent ^5 !!!! 

There is enough information to learn & share, that black history is 365 days a year !!! 

Btw: Thank you  ;-)

Though fewer in amount, Washington and Du Bois did share some similarities in their views. Both were firm believers in that education was vital for societal advancement. Regardless of the type of education, African-Americans would need to be educated in some way to function in the world. Booker T. Washington stated most of his childhood experiences in his autobiography, Up From Slavery. He was born in 1856 on a tobacco farm, which, he always referred to as a "plantation." His mother was a cook, his father a white man from a nearby farm. He went to school in Franklin County - not as a student, but to carry books for one of James Burroughs's daughters. It was illegal to educate slaves. In April 1865 the Emancipation Proclamation was read to joyful slaves in front of the Burroughs home. Booker's family soon left to join his stepfather in Malden, West Virginia. Later on Booker T. took a job in a salt mine that began at 4 a.m. so he could attend school later in the day. Within a few years, Booker was taken in as a houseboy by a wealthy towns-woman who further encouraged his longing to learn. At the age of sixteen, he was determined to walk everyday at least 500 miles back to Virginia to enroll in a new school for black students. He knew that even poor students could get an education at Hampton Institute, paying their way by working. The teacher was suspicious of the way......

When we learn how our forefathers acheived many goals dispite many challenges, It encourages us , in our own personal goal. ;-)

Peace

Staff Sergeant LADY BUTTERFLY. Proud member of C.M.I

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."

Nothings is sweeter, or more beautiful then Black love. ? Our Brothers can carry us far !!!!

Trolls : Any person that sole purpose here. Is to cause confusion, post lies, cause more division is label a troll, Color has nothing to do with my the troll status.

 Siggy under construction !!!!!!!!!

From Aschaffenburg Federal Republic of Germany (then West Germany) in 1986, the Black History Calendar admonished:

"TWENTY NEGARS ARRIVED IN JAMESTOWN, VIRGINIA--ABOARD A DUTCH VESSEL IN 1619.  TEN GENERATIONS LATER, MORE THAN THIRTY MILLION BLACKS INHABIT THE AMERICAS.  CARTER G. WOODSON INAUGURATED NEGRO HISTORY WEEK IN 1926.  A PRESIDENTIAL DECREE IN THE 1970'SEXPANDED THAT ONE WEEK INTO FOUR; AND, BLACK HISTORY MONTH HAD ITS ORIGINS.  BUT ALAS, A WEEK OR A MONTH CANNOT CHRONICLE THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS  OF A PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY WHEN THAT PEOPLE MUST ENDURE THOSE HARDSHIPS FOREVER.  THIS CALENDAR NOT ONLY DEPICTS A BLACK HISTORY YEAR, IT ILLUMINATES A BLACK LIFETIME!"

As the creator and author f the Black History Calendar, it is refreshing to see others adopt this view.

            o   saveru[breath]heart says:  Black History is 365 Days a Year <> Wow this from the same place that supported Hitler and during WWII said that Black people were equal to apes on the evolutionary scale.  If they can change, then there is hope for all.

Back at it again?  Do you get paid by the words you post or by the threads you start spreading this same old european psyops racist propaganda hatred -- diving the world into black and white ... when we all know there are NO WHITE PEOPLE born into this world.  And from what I can tell from information published, Hitler initially was a fake, cosmetically made-over and propped up by the european media controlled by the Germans into some kind of super popular leader who would change the political status quo <the way the same european press is presenting their own Obama for change in the USA selection for President>.   And since the Germans are Negroes and simply invented this "white people" disguise to trick other non-european races who don't get the inherited skin disease vitiligo ... it is useless for you to try and sell the idea that european "Black history" isn't anything but the Negro selling himself as superior, as part of Germany's strategy to take over the world.  Getting nowhere selling the Negro as an allegedly unjustly, oppressed gorup in our country, the europeans substituted the word "black" for Negro; and when they had illegally gotten control of nearly all of the continent of Africa by faking it as the native Aficans or children of Racham/Cham/Ham, they substituted "African American" as a warfare-device to gain control of the USA, using the same plan they used on the continent of Africa.  This entire nonsense of history being "black" ... which sounds as offensive as our native American music being "black music" ... especially since it is non-european Negroid in origins.  Obviously the Negro Carter G. Woodson agreed with when he allegedly said:

--->            "We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice." -- Carter Woodson (1875-1950)  <---

         We need to do what Woodson said:  "emphasize the Negro in history" -- especially the Germans, who moved from northern europe displacing the Celts (British, Gauls, Irish/Scotts), the Italians, the Hispanics, the Greeks and now the Slavs (Russians) from their own ancestral homelands ... relocating them into Africa and the Carribeans and throughout the rest of the non-Yaphetite world along with their mass-bred seed of the serpent/nachash they have been cosmetically making-over to resemble mankind (males/females) spreading HIV/AIDS and killing of the human population.  Please explain the following bit of German pyops racist propaganada hatred:  "BUT ALAS, A WEEK OR A MONTH CANNOT CHRONICLE THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF A PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY WHEN THAT PEOPLE MUST ENDURE THOSE HARDSHIPS FOREVER."

            What hardships are these european Negroes forever enduring? ... since they are the cause of the entire world being destroyed and oppressed in disguise as so-called "white people" ... and have been filling up the non-Yaphetite world with cosmetically made-over Negroes and seed of the serpent/nachash faking it as the children of Shem and Racham/Cham ... using these fakes/fakers as warfare-devices of political unrest -- from the fake Palestinians of Israel, to the fake Irish of the UK, to the fake Muslims of the Middle East and Southeast Asia, to the fake Tibetans, to fakes in Napal, to fakes in Burma and East Timor, to the Negro tribes of Dafar, Sudan faking it as native Sudanese, to the fake Negro tribes of Africa, to the fake Hindus of India and Muslims of Pakistan, to the fake tribes of native Americans and fake mixed race pre-colonial or native Shemite and Kush.te populations in the USA and throughout the Americas.

Back at it again?  Do you get paid by the words you post or by the threads you start spreading this same old european psyops racist propaganda hatred -- diving the world into black and white ... when we all know there are NO WHITE PEOPLE born into this world.  And from what I can tell from information published, Hitler initially was a fake, cosmetically made-over and propped up by the european media controlled by the Germans into some kind of super popular leader who would change the political status quo <the way the same european press is presenting their own Obama for change in the USA selection for President>.   And since the Germans are Negroes and simply invented this "white people" disguise to trick other non-european races who don't get the inherited skin disease vitiligo ... it is useless for you to try and sell the idea that european "Black history" isn't anything but the Negro selling himself as superior, as part of Germany's strategy to take over the world.  Getting nowhere selling the Negro as an allegedly unjustly, oppressed gorup in our country, the europeans substituted the word "black" for Negro; and when they had illegally gotten control of nearly all of the continent of Africa by faking it as the native Aficans or children of Racham/Cham/Ham, they substituted "African American" as a warfare-device to gain control of the USA, using the same plan they used on the continent of Africa.  This entire nonsense of history being "black" ... which sounds as offensive as our native American music being "black music" ... especially since it is non-european Negroid in origins.  Obviously the Negro Carter G. Woodson agreed with when he allegedly said:

Everything you say above is pure BS.  But most notably is what you said about the European subsituting the word "black" for Negro.  You dumb dumb, the word Black was coined during the 1960s civil rights movement by BLACK people.  We chose to be called Black and embraced the name to difuse any negative conatations of the word.  Please learn your Black history before spouting off at the mouth about these things. 

I hope for your sake that you are at least attractive, I seriously doubt that you are, but I don't see how you can have any man in your life being as crazy as you are and then be ugly on top of it.

I guess an old spintress like you has her cats to keep her happy. 

Teaching With Documents:
The Many Faces of Paul Robeson

Background

How many people do you know who are athletes? How about an athlete who has won 15 varsity letters in four different sports? An athlete who has also played professional football while at the same time being valedictorian at his university? Does this athlete also hold a law degree? How many scholar-athlete performers can you name? Concert artists who have sold out shows around the world and who can perform in more than 25 different languages? Does this scholar-athlete-performer also act in Shakespearean and Broadway plays and in movies? Can you identify a scholar-athlete-performer who is also an activist for civil and human rights? Someone who petitioned the president of the United States of America for an anti-lynching law, promoted African self-rule, helped victims of the Spanish civil war, fought for India's independence, and championed equality for all human beings? Did this scholar-athlete-performer-activist also have to endure terrorism, banned performances, racism, and discrimination throughout his career?

Paul Robeson was all these things and more. He was the son of a former slave, born and raised during a period of segregation, lynching, and open racism. He earned a four-year scholarship to Rutgers University, making him the third African American to attend the school. There he was a member of the prestigious Cap and Skull Honor Society, played four varsity sports (baseball, football, basketball, and track), won speech and debate tournaments, and managed to graduate valedictorian of his class. After graduation, Robeson applied his athletic abilities to a short career in professional football. Aside from his prowess on the gridiron, he earned a law degree and changed the direction of his career. His legal career was cut short, however, after a secretary refused to take dictation from him solely because of the color of his skin. He left law and turned to his childhood love of acting and singing. Robeson starred in Shakespeare's Othello, the musical Showboat, and films such as Jericho and Proud Valley. He was one of the top performers of his time, earning more money than many white entertainers. His concert career spanned the globe: Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, London, Moscow, New York, and Nairobi.

Robeson's travels opened his awareness to the universality of human suffering and oppression. He began to use his rich bass voice to speak out for independence, freedom, and equality for all people. He believed that artists should use their talents and exposure to aid causes around the world. "The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice," he said. This philosophy drove Robeson to Spain during the civil war, to Africa to promote self-determination, to India to aid in the independence movement, to London to fight for labor rights, and to the Soviet Union to promote anti-fascism. It was in the Soviet Union where he felt that people were treated equally. He could eat in any restaurant and walk through the front doors of hotels, but in his own country he faced discrimination and racism everywhere he went.

While Robeson's activist role increased abroad, he met dissent and intimidation in the United States. Rioters at his concert at Peekskill, New York in 1949 smashed the stage, torched chairs, attacked concertgoers, and threatened Robeson's life. His outspokenness about human rights and his pro-Soviet stance made Robeson a prime target of militant anticommunists. In 1950 the State Department revoked his passport, thereby denying his right to travel and, ultimately, to earn income abroad. Robeson fought this injustice for years vigorously but with no success. He repeatedly applied for reinstatement of his passport but was turned down. He filed a lawsuit against the State Department and faced discouraging delays, adverse decisions, and rejected appeals. Yet Robeson stuck to his principles and refused to swear an affidavit that he was not a Communist. "Whether I am or not a Communist is irrelevant," he told the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1956. "The question is whether American citizens, regardless of their political beliefs or sympathies, may enjoy their constitutional rights." In 1958 the U.S. Supreme Court finally agreed, ruling that the State Department could not deny citizens the right to travel because of their political beliefs or affiliations.

To celebrate, Robeson gave his first New York concert in a decade at a sold-out Carnegie Hall. But the years of struggle had taken a personal and professional toll. Negative public response and the ban on his travel led to the demise of his career. Before the 1950s, Robeson was one of the world's most famous entertainers and beloved American heroes--once being named "Man of the Year" by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Despite all his accomplishments, Paul Robeson remains virtually ignored in American textbooks and history. The activities here are designed to introduce students to Paul Robeson and his many accomplishments and to address the issue of individual freedom versus national security.

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How far have we came ??

Malcolm X

Message To The Grass Roots

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/malcolmxgrassroots.htm

When you want a nation, that's called nationalism. When the white man became involved in a revolution in this country against England, what was it for? He wanted this land so he could set up another white nation. That's white nationalism. The American Revolution was white nationalism. The French Revolution was white nationalism. The Russian Revolution too -- yes, it was -- white nationalism. You don't think so? Why [do] you think Khrushchev and Mao can't get their heads together? White nationalism. All the revolutions that's going on in Asia and Africa today are based on what? Black nationalism. A revolutionary is a black nationalist. He wants a nation. I was reading some beautiful words by Reverend Cleage, pointing out why he couldn't get together with someone else here in the city because all of them were afraid of being identified with black nationalism. If you're afraid of black nationalism, you're afraid of revolution. And if you love revolution, you love black nationalism.

To understand this, you have to go back to what [the] young brother here referred to as the house N*gro and the field N*gro -- back during slavery. There was two kinds of slaves. There was the house N*gro and the field N*gro. The house N*groes - they lived in the house with master, they dressed pretty good, they ate good 'cause they ate his food -- what he left. They lived in the attic or the basement, but still they lived near the master; and they loved their master more than the master loved himself. They would give their life to save the master's house quicker than the master would. The house N*gro, if the master said, "We got a good house here," the house N*gro would say, "Yeah, we got a good house here." Whenever the master said "we," he said "we." That's how you can tell a house N*gro.

If the master's house caught on fire, the house N*gro would fight harder to put the blaze out than the master would. If the master got sick, the house N*gro would say, "What's the matter, boss, we sick?" We sick! He identified himself with his master more than his master identified with himself. And if you came to the house N*gro and said, "Let's run away, let's escape, let's separate," the house N*gro would look at you and say, "Man, you crazy. What you mean, separate? Where is there a better house than this? Where can I wear better clothes than this? Where can I eat better food than this?" That was that house N*gro. In those days he was called a "house n**ger." And that's what we call him today, because we've still got some house n**gers running around here.

This modern house N*gro loves his master. He wants to live near him. He'll pay three times as much as the house is worth just to live near his master, and then brag about "I'm the only *out here." "I'm the only one on my job." "I'm the only one in this school." You're nothing but a house N*gro. And if someone comes to you right now and says, "Let's separate," you say the same thing that the house N*gro said on the plantation. "What you mean, separate? From America? This good white man? Where you going to get a better job than you get here?" I mean, this is what you say. "I ain't left nothing in Africa," that's what you say. Why, you left your mind in Africa.

On that same plantation, there was the field n*ger. The field N*gro -- those were the masses. There were always more N*gros in the field than there was N*groes in the house. The N*gro in the field caught hell. He ate leftovers. In the house they ate high up on the hog. The N*gro in the field didn't get nothing but what was left of the insides of the hog. They call 'em "chitt'lin'" nowadays. In those days they called them what they were: guts. That's what you were -- a gut-eater. And some of you all still gut-eaters.

Black History 365 days a year!

Now if you do not tell your child or discuss an important black person with someone you are loosing out on Black history.

When I was in school, they did not teach black history so my parents discuss blacks everyday and my thrist for knowledge made research to find out more.

Adults can buy a calendar that list something a black has invented, written tec. on their desk to start a conversation.

I think if more black children knew their history it would be less in jail, in the welfare office and in the non-child support line.

To all the black males and females running from child support and others who choose not to learn to read.

During slavery blacks were taken frm their families and sold on an auction block. Now you place them on the AUCTION BLOCK and ridicue them to be the state's property. Take Care of your dependents.

During slavery blacks learned to read by studying the bible. Slaves were beaten, killed and raped if caught learning to read. The slave master knew if slaves learned to read they would be dangerous. To those of you who choose to live in system you are running your own slavery system.

A person educating their mind learns black history everyday./