Tag: #BlackHistoryMonth

School Changes Name to Honor Mary Jackson, NASA Engineer #BlackHistoryMonth

LINK: instead of Andrew Jackson, racist loser

Mary Jackson at Work NASA Langley

When Wakanda Was Real #BlackHistoryMonth

LINK: It could never really happen. Except it did.

Carter G. Woodson: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know #BlackHistoryMonth

LINK: Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the scholar regarded as “the Father of Black History”

‘Sesame Street’ Shares Vintage Clips To Celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth

LINK: Grover and Stevie Wonder, 1973 is just one classic

5-Year-Old Dresses Up as Iconic Black Women for Each Day of Black History Month

Check it out at The Grapevine.

Cristi Smith-Jones's daughter Lola as Josephine Baker.

Cristi Smith-Jones’s daughter Lola as Josephine Baker.

#BlackHistoryMonth: The Story of NASA’s Real “Hidden Figures”

LINK: African-American women were vital to the Space Race

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Explore African-American Women’s Lives Via the Nat’l Women’s History Museum #BlackHistoryMonth

Read at NWHM.org.

Photo of an unknown sharecropper. Library of Congress, LC-USF34-017112-C.

Photo of an unknown sharecropper. Library of
Congress, LC-USF34-017112-C.

Henrietta Lacks’s Family Wants Compensation For Her Cells #BlackHistoryMonth

Click here to read at The Washington Post.

Henrietta Lacks circa 1945–1951

This 1940s photo made available by the family shows Henrietta Lacks. In 1951, a doctor in Baltimore removed cancerous cells from Lacks without her knowledge or consent. Source: Wikipedia

Gwendolyn Brooks’ Trailblazing Vintage Poems for Kids #BlackHistoryMonth

LINK: Celebrating Diversity and the Universal Spirit of Childhood

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Five Iconic African-American Biographies for Kids #BlackHistoryMonth

Read at NYTimes.com.

Cover of The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist by Cynthia  Levinson, Illustrated by Vanessa Brantley Newton

Cover of The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist by Cynthia Levinson, Illustrated by Vanessa Brantley Newton