Education The Birth of a Nation & The Origins of the NAACP In 1915, D.W. Griffith, released a film that would go down as one of the most disturbing representations of black Americans ever, The Birth... Zak Ivy1 June 2023
Education Affirmative Action President Lyndon B. Johnson made it clear that a shift was greatly needed in America. No longer could we preach about a land of... Zak Ivy1 June 2023
Education The Civil War & Emancipation Be Woke Presents Black History in Two Minutes (or so) In 1861, the south’s threats of seceding the union led to the start of... Zak Ivy1 June 2023
Education Reconstruction: The Vote After the Civil War, the Reconstruction era brought about hope and change in the form of citizenship and equality in America. Black men were... Zak Ivy1 June 2023
Education The Tuskegee Study In 1932 the United States Public Health Service commissioned a study on the effects of untreated syphilis. 600 poor black men from Alabama were... Zak Ivy1 June 2023
Education Katherine Johnson Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Katherine Johnson is a powerhouse unlike any other. Entering college at the tender age of 15, Johnson’s advanced mathematical... Zak Ivy1 June 2023
Education Separate But Equal In June of 1882, a 30-year-old shoemaker by the name of Homer Plessy of New Orleans led a revolution that aimed to overturn Jim... Zak Ivy1 June 2023
Education Black Feminism Black women and their commitment to freedom and equality has often been minimized in history books. However, with black women standing at the front... Zak Ivy31 May 2023
Education Shirley Chisholm Shirley Chisholm is a political icon who paved the way for politics as we know it today. As an active participant for women’s rights... Zak Ivy31 May 2023
Education Convict Leasing Although the 13th Amendment passed the Senate in 1864 and the House in 1865, the loopholes that exist continue to wreak havoc on the... Zak Ivy31 May 2023