Altina Schinasi Miranda, August 4, 1907 – August 19, 1999, an American heiress, sculptor, filmmaker, entrepreneur, window dresser, designer, and best known for designing the Harlequin eyeglass or Cat-Eye frames.Continue reading
Harlem’s Norma Merrick Sklarek, “The Rosa Parks of Architecture” 1926 – 2012
Norma Merrick Sklarek, April 15, 1926 – February 6, 2012, was the first African American woman to pass her license exam to officially become an architect in both New York (1954) and California (1962).Continue reading
Harlem’s Ella Baker, A Great Woman Behind A Great Movement 1903-1986 (Video)
Ella Josephine Baker, December 13, 1903 – December 13, 1986, was an African-American civil right and human rights activist. She was a largely behind-the-scenes organizer whose career spanned more than five decades.Continue reading
Library Of Congress: Ralph Ellison’s “Juneteenth”
The following guest post was written by Barbara Bair, curator of literature, culture and the arts in the Library’s Manuscript Division for the Library of Congress.Continue reading
#BuyBlack30 Challenge Supports Black Owned Restaurants From Harlem To Hollis
@BuyBlack30 co-founders Dorissa White and Kiera Mallett created the #BuyBlack30Challenge to encourage a month of exclusively buying black.Continue reading
Louise Meriwether And Bridgett Davis In Conversation At The Harlem Arts Salon
Novelist, essayist, journalist, and activist, published her first and critically acclaimed book, Daddy Was a Number Runner (with an introduction by James Baldwin) in 1970, using auto-biographical elements about growing up in Harlem during the Depression in the era after the Harlem Renaissance.Continue reading
Rosa Parks’ Family Home To Be Offered At NY Auction
The house where Rosa Parks sought refuge after fleeing the south will be offered at auction after being turned into a work of art and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean twice.Continue reading
TV One Hosts Advance Screenings Of ‘Two Sides’ And ‘Behind The Movement’ (Red Carpet)
During the 49th NAACP Image Awards weekend in Pasadena, CA, TV One conducted two advance screenings of their upcoming original programs, “Behind The Movement” and “Two Sides.” Continue reading
‘Behind The Movement’ Starring Meta Golding As Rosa Parks Premieres February 2018
Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat 62 years ago was only the beginning. Premiering on TV One in February, Behind the Movement offers a closer look at how the history-making Montgomery Bus Boycott was planned in just three days and ultimately led to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Continue reading
Atlanta: ‘Behind The Movement’ Starring Meta Golding as Rosa Parks Announced Today
TV One today announced that production is underway in Atlanta, Georgia for the new film, Behind the Movement, starring Meta Golding ("The Hunger Games"), Isaiah Washington ("The 100"), Loretta Devine ("Waiting to Exhale"), and Roger Guenveur Smith ("American Gangster").Continue reading
The Harlem Black Fashion Museum Founded By Ms. Lois Alexander Lane
The historic The Black Fashion Museum was founded by Ms. Lois Alexander Lane in 1970, the museum was in a brownstone on West 126th Street (between Lenox and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd.,), after founding the legendary Harlem Institute of Fashion in 1966.
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Arthur Mitchell Honored By Columbia University In Harlem
Columbia University will confer the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters on the legendary dance pioneer and social activist Arthur Mitchell this month, the Arthur Mitchell Project announced today.Continue reading
HW Picks: Rosa Parks “Featherlite Pancakes” Recipe
While Rosa Parks' recipe for "Featherlite" peanut butter pancakes has a complete and specific ingredient list, it is a little light on instructions, so the writer took some liberties and added some typical procedures for preparing pancakes.Continue reading
HW Pick: MLK Suggestions for Riding A Bus (1956)
Last Tuesday, December 1st, marked the 60th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ refusal to relinquish her seat at the front of a Montgomery, Alabama bus, and as some people pointed out, the story many of us were told as children about Parks’ act of civil disobedience was fabricated.Continue reading