By Sabreen DawudSpecial to the AFRO Activism is an evolving form of resistance. As technology, communication and communities continue to change, the methods activists use to champion social change have shifted. Still, the question remains, what are the most effective ways to show up for a cause in this new day and age? This week, […]
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Black leaders sound off about National Museum of African American History and Culture’s first official Kwanzaa exhibit
By Ashleigh FieldsAFRO Assistant Editorafields@afro.com The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) will display its first official Kwanzaa exhibit until Jan. 1, 2024. A kinara, mkeka mat and a playlist debuted at the museum on Dec. 26. The week-long Pan-African holiday was originally founded in 1966 by Maulana Ron Karenga to […]
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New children’s book teaches youth about Juneteenth
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Lavaille Lavette, a New York Times best-selling author, said her greatest satisfaction is telling stories about people, places, things, and events that everyone should remember. “Jayylen’s Juneteenth Surprise,” her most recent work, is a gorgeously illustrated “Little Golden Book” about a little boy’s first Juneteenth celebration. […]
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The AFRO Celebrates 125 Years
To mark the AFRO’s 125 years of continuous publication, we have gone through our extensive archives to find the most compelling and informative articles the paper put out with an eye to highlighting unsung heroes and the AFRO employees who have made this paper what it is today. From the musings of Col. Midnight in […]
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The AFRO’s Beginnings: 1892-1917
The newspaper that for 125 years has focused on informing and igniting African American communities around the country got its start on August 13, 1892. The early AFRO-American Newspaper was edited by the Rev. William Alexander, founding pastor of the Patterson Avenue/Sharon Baptist Church, originally located on the corner of Presstman and Carey Streets in […]
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Notable Moments in Black History 1892 – 1917
1892 Activist Ida B. Wells begins her anti-lynching campaign with the publication of Southern Horrors: Lynch Law and in All Its Phases and a speech in New York City’s Lyric Hall (Photo Credit: Public Domain) Operatic soprano Sissieretta Jones becomes the first African American to perform at Carnegie Hall. 1893 Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performs […]
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Unsung Heroes: 1892-1917
Joe Gans (1874-1910) – Boxer Joe Gans was born Joseph Gant in 1874 in Baltimore, Md. He fought from 1891 to 1909 and is known as the first African American World Boxing Champion of the 20th Century. Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968) – Artist Meta Vaux Warrick was born in 1877 in Philadelphia, Pa. to […]
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Violence Against African Americans: 1892-1917
Violence against African American and within their communities was never more prevalent than the years after Reconstruction. This is the atmosphere in which the AFRO American Newspaper developed under the tutelage of John H. Murphy, Sr. Murphy and his reporters would travel far and wide to report on violence committed either through vigilante justice such […]
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The Black Panthers
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 such as Mao Tse-Tung and Malcolm X, law books, and rifles, The Black Panther Party fed the hungry, protected the weak from racist police, and […]
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Week IV — ASALH is Woodson’s Dream ‘Come True’
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 so doing change the Negro’s view of himself and the public’s view of the Negro, leading to racial equality and an elevated existence for the […]
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Week III – Woodson Set Out to Re-Educate the Mis-Educated Negro
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) Socrates, the renowned Greek philosopher and sage, once urged his followers to “Know thyself.” Thousands of years later, that advice continued to resonate, becoming the […]
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Week II — Carter G. Woodson: An Extraordinary Man Shaped by Ordinary People
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 names – at least those recorded in the annals of formal history – one can point to as being the father of Black history’s heroes […]