This is an assignment from the blog of Angry Black Woman (http://theangryblackwoman.wordpress.com), with a challenging call to everyone to make Black History Month more pertinent. More real. More relevant to all of us.
“It’s February. Black History Month is upon us again. *rolls eyes* Huey Freeman (of Boondocks fame) summed it up best when he said:
Every [...]
Entries from February 2007
February 19, 2007
OUR BLACK HISTORY MONTH
February 15, 2007
STUDENT NEEDS HELP WITH RESEARCH ON INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIPS
This e-mail/post comes courtesy of Rachel’s Tavern (rachelstavern.com)
Dear Rachel,
My name is Christopher Mc Nerney and I am a graduate student at the George Washington University. I am wondering if your site would be willing to post a link to my dissertation survey regarding interracial romantic relationships. Below is the email I send to sites that [...]
February 9, 2007
VALENTINE’S DAY
Valentine’s Day is coming up on February 14. It is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other; sending Valentine’s cards, candy, or donations to charities, for their love ones, often anonymously. Mostly, it is in the form of flowers and candy as presents that are given on Valentine’s Day. The holiday [...]
February 9, 2007
DOES BLACK HISTORY MONTH STILL HAVE RELEVANCE?
Black History Month
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Black-History Month is a remembrance of important people and events in black history. It is celebrated annually in the United States and Canada in the month of February, while in the UK it is held in the month of October.
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History
Statue of Woodson in Huntington, West Virginia
Black History Month was [...]
February 9, 2007
“GOOD” VS. “BAD”
Black women and our features.
They have been reviled and castigated for over 400 years.
Our noses, our hips, our lips, our skin color, and most notably, our hair.
And no more apparent is the devaluation of black women more seen in how American society views our hair.
So the question to all of you, my dear readers, is the [...]
February 9, 2007
WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT
Black women in America stand at the crossroads of one of the most monumental decisions they will ever make in their lives. And this decision is as to whether they will expand their horizons on the inclusion of non-black men into their lives as husbands, confidants and lifelong companions.
For so long, black women have been [...]
February 7, 2007
HONOR THE BLACK WOMAN
ONLY A BLACK WOMAN
Can take a week of left over scraps and make a gourmet meal
Can cuss a man out, then make love to him that night and make him feel like a king.
Can wear a burgundy french roll, 3 inch heels and a split up her thigh to work and make it look professional [...]
February 3, 2007
THE COMBAHEE RIVER COLLECTIVE
A BLACK FEMINIST STATEMENT
We are a collective of black feminists who have been meeting together since 1974.1 During that time we have been involved in the process of defining and clarifying our politics, while at the same time doing political work within our own group and in coalition with other progressive organizations and movements. The [...]
February 3, 2007
A REVISIT OF A BLACK FEMINIST STATEMENT
THE NATIONAL BLACK FEMINIST ORGANIZATION’S STATEMENT OF PURPOSE, 1973
The distorted male-dominated media image of the Women’s Liberation Movement has clouded the vital and revolutionary importance of this movement to Third World women, especially black women. The Movement has been characterized as the exclusive property of so-called white middle-class women and any black women seen involved [...]
February 3, 2007
BLACK AND BEAUTIFUL
DIGITAL IMAGES OF BLACK WOMEN IN 19TH CENTURY AMERICA FROM THE SCHOMBURG LIBRARY
LINK:
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/images_aa19/portwom.cfm?dhgx7423
