Category: black history
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Aunt Jemima, Not Just Pancakes!
Aunt Jemima is a brand of pancake mix, syrup, and other breakfast foods. The Aunt Jemima pancake mix was advertised in 1889 as the first ready-mix. Aunt Jemima is based on the common enslaved “Mammy” archetype, a plump Black woman wearing a headscarf who is a devoted and submissive servant. Her skin is dark and dewy, with a pearly…
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Lieutenant Colonel Robert Jones Friend: UFO Investigator
Those of you who are into the subject of UFOs and its history must remember Colonel Robert Friend. He played a huge role in the US Air Force’s nearly 20-year Project Blue Book, the official government study of UFOs. Lieutenant Colonel Robert Jones Friend was born in Columbia, South Carolina on February 29, 1920. From an early age,…
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Moments in History: Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. Douglass was born into slavery in February 1818, on the Eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay in Talbot County Maryland. Although his actual birthdate is unknown, he chose to celebrate the 14th of February as his birthday. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a…
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Dr. Charles R. Drew
Charles Richard Drew was an American surgeon and medical researcher. He was born on June 3, 1904 into a middle-class African-American family in Washington, D.C. His father was a carpet layer and his mother was a teacher. Drew and three of his four younger siblings grew up in Washington’s largely middle-class and interracial Foggy Bottom neighborhood. Drew won an athletics scholarship to Amherst College in Massachusetts,[7] from which he…
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NASA Administrator Statement on Passing of Katherine Johnson
The following is a statement from Administrator Jim Bridenstine on the passing of NASA legend Katherine Johnson, who worked for the agency from 1953 to 1986. “NASA is deeply saddened by the loss of a leader from our pioneering days, and we send our deepest condolences to the family of Katherine Johnson. Ms. Johnson helped…
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Toyota Salutes Negro Leagues Baseball Centennial with Upcoming 2020 Toyota Highlander Commercial, “Home Team”
Former Kansas City Monarchs Captain James “Jim” Robinson Featured in Spot Produced by Burrell Communications Group PLANO, Texas (February 19, 2020) – In celebration of an iconic moment in American history, Toyota pays tribute to 100 years of Negro Leagues Baseball in the latest creative as part of the marketing campaign for the all-new 2020 Toyota…
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Moments in History: Garrett A Morgan (video)
Garrett Augustus Morgan was an African-American inventor and community leader. He invented parts for sewing machines, hair care products, and a version of the modern traffic signal which he patented and sold to GE. He is also known for his publicized rescue of miners near Lake Erie in 1916 using his safety hood. See the…
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Racism In America – New Film Reveals The Untold History Of Our Nation
BOSTON /PRNewswire/ — The film ‘An American Story: Race Amity and the Other Tradition’ explores the moral counterweights to the tradition of racism in America and how we can move together towards our nation’s motto – ‘E Pluribus Unum’. This thought-provoking, inspiring and emotional film tells the story of cross-cultural friendships that tackled racism and inequality in the past.…
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New Exhibit “1968: Civil Rights at 50” Opens Today
Exhibit Tells the Story of Events That Shaped the Civil Rights Movement 50 Years Ago This Year
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Martin Luther King III and Family Release King Holiday Message and Plans for Commemoration
50 years after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the King Family renews calls for unity and equality