True Colors Annual Conference XVII
Friday, March 12 & Sunday, March 13, 2010
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North East Digital Village
Black Stories, Black History
Test Your Knowledge of Black History
HBCA 18th Annual Historically Black College Tour
ATTENTION NEW LONDON COUNTY CONNECTICUT
Bus departs from New London H.S. on Tuesday, April 13 and returns Sunday, April 18, 2010.
The HBCA Black College Southern Education Tour includes tours of 6 Historically Black Colleges & Pre-Tour Workshops
Bus departs from New London HS on April 18th and returns April 23rd.
The colleges being visited are: Howard University, Coppin State University, Bowie State University, Morgan State University, Hampton University, Norfolk State University.
Schedule of Activities
March 11, 2010: Financial Aid Workshop conducted at NL Science & Technology Magnet High School. Start time 6:30 PM-8 PM.
March 13, 2010: Local College Fair conducted at NL Science & Technology Magnet High School. Admissions counsilors from such schools as Eastern Connecticut State University, Johnson & Wales University, Mitchell College, Three Rivers Community College, and University of New Haven discuss admissions requirements and more.
April 3, 2010: Pre-Tour Student Orientation conducted at NL Science & Technology Magnet High School. Start time 9 AM-1 PM. Held for students attending the tour.
April 8, 2010: Pre-Tour Parent Orientation conducted at NL Science & Technology Magnet High School. Start time 6 PM-7 PM.
How to Apply
Cost $285 per student (cost incl hotel, transportation, student package, tee shirt, and possibly two meals a day.)
Students must submit an application, two letters of recommendation, and grade transcript along with a minimum deposit of $85. Mail to: HBCA, College Tour Committee, PO Box 1385, New London, CT 06320. We recommend mailing application & payment even if the transcript and letters are not ready in time. Do not hold off from sending in paperwork because you don't have your transcript or letters of recommendations. These can be submitted at a later date. This way you can reserve your spot.
Students will be required to attend two (2) workshops and interview with the tour committee.
Repeat students and students not living in New London, CT may be placed on a waiting list until Feb 8, 2010. We will start clearing the waiting list beginning Feb 8 with students on the waiting list who have submitted all required documents.
- $85 deposit due 12/18/09
- $100 payment due 1/22/10
- $95 final payment due 2/22/10
Get your tourapplication2010 here now
For complete up-to-date information, please visit the hbca-nl.com web site. Or check out the FAQ here
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.
"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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