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Category: AFRO Black History: Preserving Our Legacy

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The Black Panthers

by Seth McMillanJuly 4, 2016January 25, 2022

They were not only young and angry, but thought they could change the world. And in the course of 10 years, they did. Aarmed with sincerity, the words of revolutionaries […]

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Week IV — ASALH is Woodson’s Dream ‘Come True’

by Zenitha PrinceFebruary 25, 2015January 25, 2022

By Zenitha Prince Senior AFRO Correspondent Carter G. Woodson had a dream – to legitimize and establish the true place of the Black race in the world’s history, and in […]

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Week III – Woodson Set Out to Re-Educate the Mis-Educated Negro

by Zenitha PrinceFebruary 20, 2015January 25, 2022

By Zenitha Prince Senior AFRO Correspondent 1. Carter G. Woodson and the then-Association for the Study of Negro Life and History launched Negro History Week in February 1926. (AFRO Archives) […]

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Week II — Carter G. Woodson: An Extraordinary Man Shaped by Ordinary People

by Zenitha PrinceFebruary 12, 2015January 25, 2022

Carter G. Woodson Carter G. Woodson was in many ways a self-made man, a singular man whose greatness grew out of the ordinary. As such, there are but a few […]

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Week I — Carter G. Woodson: A Man Beyond His Time

by Zenitha PrinceFebruary 5, 2015January 25, 2022

Portrait of African-American historian Carter Godwin Woodson as a young man. (Photo/New River Gorge National River website, National Park Service, Department of the Interior, United States Government.) Carter G. Woodson […]

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AFRO Black History: Preserving the Legacy 2015

by AFRO StaffFebruary 1, 2015January 25, 2022

Welcome AFRO’s Black History: Preserving the Legacy 2015 – This year’s exciting program is a new format as we share four weeks of news and stories during February and launch […]

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Calvin G. Butler, Jr. — BGE CEO

by AFRO StaffFebruary 1, 2015January 25, 2022

Calvin G. Butler, Jr., BGE CEO, shares influencers on his career that were crucial to his success as well as advice to be successful. Click on Continue Reading and watch […]

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