Black+History


 * //This page is dedicated to resources for teaching Black history... all year long...//**

**//"...1 month (black history) x 12 years (education) = one year of Black History Is that enough? "//** //from Black History,// //by Christo D. Johnson, 2004. __Tangled Roots,__ Cherokee Books, Dover, De.//

//**"If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated."**// Carter G. Woodson

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Underwater sculpture in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela in Grenada in honor of our African Ancestors who were thrown overboard the slave ships during the Middle Passage of the African Holocaust.

Black History Calendar 2008 - [| Black Studies Calendar 2008.pdf]

[|Extensive Black History site from Lawson Community College] Great source of biographies and quotes

Obama...History in the making...
[|Obama Speech on Race: "A More Perfect Union" - Philadelphia, March 18, 2008] Text [|Obama Speech "A More Perfect Union"] Video [|Yes We Can...] [|Women for Obama at UCLA] [|Obama in Berlin]

 In the 1st clip an anti-Obama reporter tries to get an interview from a young black man that he ASSUMES is ignorant. He assumes that he is only supporting Obama because he is a BLACK man and has no idea of what the issues really are. Boy was he wrong! In the 2nd clip the young man explains in depth his response to the reporter. BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Check it out. [|Derrick #1] Obama supporter articulates his position, intellectual/articulate Black man... [|Derrick #2] Obama Supporter defends his choice, emotional reasons for his choice...