What is Your Learning plan for BHM?

      As we kick off Black History Month (BHM) 2023, what is your learning plan?

     Let this be the year that you take some time to learn more than the regurgitated factoids regarding Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, MLK, and Malcolm X.  Make the conscious effort to learn of the excellence that is within the realm of Black history.  Are you familiar with any of the following:

• The Red Summer
• The MOVE movement
• The (original) Rainbow Coalition
• The Prossers
• Indigo
• The Afro-Asiatic language
• The Black History of Turkey
• Claudette Colvin
• Gilbert Stuart
• Dewey Sanderson
• Alice H Parker
• Solomon Harper
• Biloxi wade-ins
• Birmingham Children's Crusade
• Biddy Mason Cage
• Urbane Frances Bass
• the Buffalo Soldiers
• The National Black Political Convention
• The Garveys
• Stono Rebellion
• The Gradual Abolition Law

    If you have NOT heard of some or any of what has been listed above...take some time and educate yourself.  It is time to move past what has been deemed palatable for White people and move into the arena of ACTUAL history with depth and nuance.  

     Additional information to learn about throughout the year:

• The Creole Case
• The Talented Tenth
• The Niggerati
• Mum Bet Freeman
• William Tucker
• William Wells Brown
• CR Patterson & sons
• Onesimus
• HBCUs and Jewish asylum
• Gladys West
• Bessie Coleman
• Rebecca Lee Crumpler
• Bayard Rustin
• Anna Murray
• Mayme Clayton
• Benjamin Banneker