True Colors Annual Conference XIX
Celebrating Our Allies
Friday, March 16 & Saturday, March 17, 2012
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North East Digital Village
Black Stories, Black History
Test Your Knowledge of Black History
HBCA 20th Annual Historically Black College Tour
ATTENTION NEW LONDON COUNTY CONNECTICUT
Bus departs from New London H.S. on Sunday, April 8 and returns Saturday, April 14, 2012.
This year, the HBCA Black College Southern Education Tour includes tours of Virginia Union University, Morehouse College, Spelman University, Clark Atlanta University, NC A&T State University, Winston Salem State University, Saint Augustine's College, and Howard University. Additional visit to the MLK Jr Historic Site may include Atlanta, ATL Underground, and the MLK Jr National Memorial in D.C.
How to Apply
Cost $310 per student (cost include hotel, transportation, student information package, and tee shirt.)
Students must submit an application, two letters of recommendation, and grade transcript along with a minimum deposit of $110. Deposit is non-refundable. Recommendation letter must be written by a school offical. Mail application package and payment to: HBCA, College Tour Committee, PO Box 1385, New London, CT 06320. The application & payment can be mailed seperately from the transcript and letters. Payment is required to reserve your spot.
Get the rest of the details and your tourapplication2012 here now.
For complete up-to-date information, please visit the hbca-nl.com web site.
Black History Month
February is set aside to celebrate and chronicle the lives of Black Americans as well as to educate America about the accomplishments of black Americans. Carter G. Woodson, the founder of Black History month believed that knowledge was key to success.
| "When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.", Carter G. Woodson |
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Journey to Freedom
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Freedom's Children
- Biographies
- Black Wings: National Air and Space Museum showcasing the contributions African Americans have made to aviation.
- African Americans Scientists: Since Benjamin Banneker and George Washington Carver left their marks on American science, African Americans have made great strides as scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and inventors. It's a story of success in the face of great odds in a racist society. However, there's still much room for progress, because even today blacks are sorely underrepresented as science students, teachers, and professionals. Here you can hear the voices of just a few of the black scientists who are living and working in North America today—and helping to pave the way for those who will follow.
- Modern History of Blacks in Mathematics
- Negro League Baseball Dot Com
- Afrocentric Voices
- African American Sheet Music: This collection consists of 1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music dating from 1850 through 1920. The collection includes many songs from the heyday of antebellum black face minstrelsy in the 1850s and from the abolitionist movement of the same period.
- America's Jazz Heritage: Ten-year initiative to research, preserve, and present the history of jazz through exhibitions, performances, recordings, radio, publications, and educational programs at the Smithsonian and across the nation.
- Center for Black Music Research: Documents and preserves information and materials related to the black music experience throughout the world.
- Red Hot Jazz Archive
- The Blues Highway: The history of the blues is more than a musical chronology. The blues was born the day the West African shoreline fell from the horizon. It was raised amid the institutionalized savagery of the Deep South and flourished in the dark heart of America's largest cities. We owe the blues to those who bore the pain of enslavement behind the frightful shadows of our collective soul. The Blue Highway, then, is dedicated to the men and women who traveled beyond our ignorant place, and to those who could not.
- African-Americans in Motion Pictures: provides some of the most interesting studies along with the many controversial interpretations of the roles as actors they played on the silver screen. As far back as the silent films era, African-Americans have been featured in motion pictures playing roles depicting some aspect of acting and being purveyors of a black image.
- Black Film Center/Archive: A repository of films and related materials by and about African Americans. Included are films which have substantial participation by African Americans as writers, actors, producers, directors, musicians, and consultants, as well as those which depict some aspect of black experience.
- Blackgilm.com: P.O. Box 371661 Denver, Colorado 80237, 303-520-5804. Online resource which links the Black film community while cultivating national and international audiences interested in their work.
- San Diego BLAACK Pages (SDBP): Basic Link to African American Community Knowledge
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Black History Sites
- African American Holocaust: Web: maafa.org. MAAFA is a Kiswahili term for "Disaster" or "Terrible Occurrence"..
- Afrocentric Experience: Web: http://www.swagga.com/. The Afrocentric Experience is dedicated to the empowerment and the enlightenment processes of all people through out the world especially those of African descent in Africa and the African diaspora.
- Powerfull Days in Black & White: Striking pictures of Martin Luther King's arrest, distributed nationwide by the Associated Press began a new career of photojournalism for Charles Moore. Over the next seven years, Moore made some of the most significant pictures of the civil rights movement
- Africa Within: Africa Within is the premier web site for Africana Studies. AfricaWithin.com is an online portal to African and African-American History,Black History, Art, Books, Pictures, Egypt, Poetry, and more.
- Afro-American History: Links to several excellent sites on specific topics and general African American history.
- Breaking Racial Barriers: In 1944 the Harmon Foundation organized an exhibition "Portraits of Outstanding Americans of Negro Origin.". Don't miss this one.
- The Museum of African American History: Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit provides "exceptional exhibitions and programs based on outstanding collections and research that explore the diversity of African American history and culture."
- Stamp on Black History: Six high school students in the Washington, DC area developed this site that supplies links to well-written biographies and photos of African Americans featured on postage stamps.
- Black Facts Online!
- The Universal Black Pages
- Deeper Shade Of History
- Education First: Black History Activities
- African-American Mosaic - a Study of Black History and Culture
- Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History
- About Kwanzaa
- John Henrik Clarke Africana Library: located at Cornell University, 310 Triphammer Road, Ithaca, New York 14850. Web: http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/. The Africana Library was named in honor of John Henrik Clarke, who was widely recognized as a pioneer in the field of Africana Studies.
- Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture
- National Civil Rights Museum: 450 Mulberry Street, Memphis, TN 38103, (901) 521-9699. Web: http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/. The Museum exists to assist the public in understanding the lessons of the Civil Rights Movement and its impact and influence on the human rights movement worldwide.
- Milestones in Black History: Since as slaves, African Americans have fought for their independence and to be seen as equals. These struggles have produced many historical icons and events. Events such as the Emancipation Proclamation, which gave slaves their freedom, and the Civil Rights Movement often divided the country. Individuals such as Booker T. Washington, a former slave who became a great educator, and Sojourner Truth, who was not only an abolitionist, but also a women's rights activist, eventually brought all Americans together to a place of greater peace, understanding, and acceptance of each other. One of the most recent historical events in black history is the election of the first African American president, Barack Obama. (cite: http://www.usa-people-search.com/
"The events which transpired five thousand years ago;
Five years ago or five minutes ago, have determined what will happen five minutes from now;
five years from now or five thousand years from now.
All history is a current event"
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Resource Links
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