Here’s how Congressman Chaka Fattah is making Living History e Congressman Chaka Fattah is a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee. This committee is responsible for setting spending priorities of over $1 trillion in annual discretionary funds. Congressman Fattah is Ranking Member (senior Democrat) on the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and […]
Here’s how Congressman Chaka Fattah is making Living History Congressman Chaka Fattah is a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee. This committee is responsible…
Journalist Soledad O’Brien brings her Black In America Town Hall Tour to Charlotte this month. She will host a discussion and panel focused race, class, wealth, poverty and opportunity. The event will be 7 p.m. Feb. 18, Knight Theater. Text “Goodmusic” To 71007 for your chance at ticket giveaways and news before anyone else!…Standard Messaging […]
In a pile of reel-to-reel cassette tapes in an Arizona Goodwill store, was a rare taped recording of a speech made by Dr. Martin Luther…
As dance instructor Lydia Grant in the 1980 film Fame Debbie Allen dropped one of the most iconic lines in cinema history “You’ve got big…
For many of us the assassination of NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is merely a chapter in our Civil Rights history books. It’s a clip in the countless civil rights documentaries we’ve watched in history classes. For Evers’ widow and daughter, that moment plays over-and-over in their minds. “It never stops,” Evers’ daughter Reena said. […]
Update: The event has been moved to the Gantt Center beginning with a 4:30 p.m reception. Both Merlie Evers and daughter Rena will be in attendance. Journalist Steve Crump traces one of the most important years of the Civil Rights Movement in his new documentary “Flashbacks and Tributes From ’63.” Crump and WTVI PBS Charlotte […]
Harvard professor/TV host and author Henry Louis Gates, Jr. isn’t playing when it comes to Black History Month. And you shouldn’t be either, because there…
At 89 years-old, Morrie Turner, who is the first nationally syndicated African American cartoonist in America, was still making cartoons for the children of Sacramento.…
The first African American Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm was honored with an official stamp as part of the USPS Black Heritage series. Ronald Stroman, Deputy Postmaster General…
The history of the African American people seems far too wide, deep and complex to boil down into 6 television episodes, but that’s what Henry…
