Let's Celebrate How Far We Have Come This Month Of February During "Black History Month"

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Permalink Reply by Tawnette Fulton- Gilbert on February 1, 2011 at 2:38pm

GREAT POST PHOEBE!!!

LOVE  YA

TAWNETTE

GOD BLESS

"WE HAVE COME A LONG WAY!!!!!!!!!!"

Permalink Reply by Roland Moore on February 2, 2011 at 11:35pm

PLEASE READ THIS ARTICLE TITLED: "IT IS TIME"

 

Permalink Reply by Tamara Johnson on February 3, 2011 at 1:38pm

Thank You Roland for that important info. that we all should be aware of.

Love Tam

 

Permalink Reply by Phoebe Macon on February 4, 2011 at 1:27am

I, Too, Sing America
by Langston Hughes


I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
Say to me,
"Eat in the kitchen,"
Then.

Besides,
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed--

I, too, am America.

Permalink Reply by Phoebe Macon on February 4, 2011 at 1:40am

Still I Rise
by Maya Angelou


You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own backyard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

 

Permalink Reply by Tawnette Fulton- Gilbert on February 4, 2011 at 7:28pm

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

 

ROSA PARKS 1913-2005

PIONEER OF CIVIL RIGHTS

 

ALAINE LOCKE 1866-1954

FIRST BLACK RHODES SCHOLAR

 

RUTH BROWN 1928-2006

RHYTHM AND BLUES SINGER

 

JAMES WELDON JOHNSON 1871-1938

EDITOR OF FIRST BLACK DAILY US NEWSPAPER

 

BARRY WHITE 1944-2003

RECORD PRODUCER, SONGWRITER AND SINGER

 

MARY JANE PATTERSON 1840-1895

LEADING AFRICAN AMERICAN INFLUENTIAL EDUCATOR

 

ED BRADLEY 1941-2006

TRAILBLAZING TELEVISION JOURNALIST

 

SADDIE ALEXANDER 1898-1989

LAWYER, ECONOMIST AND CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER

 

EDDIE ROBINSON 1919-2007

RECORD SETTING COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACH

 

ERNEST EVERETT JUST 1883-1941

ZOOLOGIST AND MARINE BIOLOGIST

 

 

 

Permalink Reply by Tawnette Fulton- Gilbert on February 7, 2011 at 4:16pm

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

 

DOROTHY DANDRIDGE

ACTRESS, SINGER, AND DANCER

 

SARAH VAUGHAN

JAZZ AND POPULAR SINGER

 

MEDGAR WILEY EVERS

NAACP LEADER AND MARTYR

 

SAMMY DAVIS JR.

ENTERTAINER

 

WILMA RUDOLPH

WORLD CLASS ATHLETE

 

ARTHUR ASHE

ATHLETE AND ACTIVIST

 

RONALD E. McNAIR, Ph.D

NASA ASTRONAUT

 

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Permalink Reply by Phoebe Macon on February 11, 2011 at 1:48am

Black History Thought: Never forget the debt you owe to all those who have gone before you!!

 

 

 

 

Permalink Reply by Phoebe Macon on February 21, 2011 at 11:19pm

JANUARY "BLACK HISTORY" NOTES!!

 

Permalink Reply by Phoebe Macon on February 21, 2011 at 11:20pm

FEBRUARY "BLACK HISTORY" NOTES!!

 

Permalink Reply by Phoebe Macon on February 21, 2011 at 11:21pm

MARCH "BLACK HISTORY" NOTES!!

 

Permalink Reply by Phoebe Macon on February 21, 2011 at 11:22pm

APRIL "BLACK HISTORY" NOTES!!

 

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