black history month

By Adrienne Gaffney Jan. 30, 2021 It’s not an understatement to describe the events of the past year as historic, and particularly for Black Americans. The nation elected its first Black vice president, a woman, and a graduate of a historically Black university and Georgia sent its first Black senator to the Capitol. (Both of these…

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The Black History Month 2021 theme, “Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity” explores the African diaspora, and the spread of Black families across the United States. You can’t look at the black family without also looking at womanism/feminism and intersectionality. A Little History…In August of 1619, a journal entry recorded that “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by…

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