Sharon Mitchell
My family's American story begins in North Carolina. All my life I heard about two brothers who came down from the Carolinas and bought land and settled in Wicox County, ...
Growing up in the “enlightened” 1950s-60s of central NJ, I attended integrated schools all my life. Having a Black teacher was virtually unheard of. Through my elementary years, in the ...
Denise Morrissette
Regarding "African-American" history, isn't it time to merge the history books? African-American history is American history.
John Sibley Butler
This series is a disgrace to the self-help tradition of Black Americans. Over 100 private black colleges and universities; southern blacks in their 4th and 5th generation of college graduates. ...
Donna Lee
Yes! There are deliberate and malicious blocks and obstacles, including racism, which the latter, by the definition I’m aware of, is inherent in the institutions of American society. And life ...
Margaret Lewis
Being born in Nashville, TN, and attending college in Arkansas, during those years when the United States was still trying to figure out what to call me, I am thankful ...
Dennis Dickey
I'm glad that we have a half-black person in office. I say this, because, and I ask this question! Isn't Obama Barack, half black and half white? But, I keep ...
Joan McCarty
My first opportunity to take a formal class in African American History was in 1968 at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Many of the students thought this class would ...
Tam Nichols
The African Americans Many Rivers To Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is such a powerful series. I have been sharing and will share videos regarding this because I feel ...
Lonnie DeWitt
My story is chronicled in my published book, "A Ghostly Rein of a Terror - iN tHE cAR", which was mandatory reading at the California State University-Sacramento (CSUS) in Criminal ...
George Monroe
Attached is a picture of my great great grandfather Ned. He was born in 1828 to an enslaved couple Ned and Peggy, who resided on President James Monroe's plantation in ...
Eunita Johnson
My 6th, 7th, and 8th grade grammer school teacher, in Chicago, IL, taught Black history to our classes, and it started me on a journey to research every bit of ...
Teresa Mitchell Carter
Mr HL Gates, I am honored to be writing to you. Enjoying 5-part series. My Great G-Ma (Nancy Dumas) was a slave in Pittsview/Russell County, AL. After Emancipation Proclamation, she ...
Mark Griffin
JohnnyPump Tales were inspired by my role as a father. In 2011, I became a single parent to my 10 year-old son, Donte'. I looked at him one day and ...
charles dey
ARTIST STATEMENT As a child, I used to draw on open spaces: tiny shreds of paper, bedroom walls. I’d wake up, chasing stories all around me: the bustle of the busy ...
