Posts tagged with african american

Black History Presents – Daily knowledge: Hallie Quinn Brown (Day19)

0 comments, 19/02/2012, by Mr. Blair in African-American Awareness, Black People, Blair History Month, General, my people

Hallie Quinn Brown Hallie Quinn Brown was a educator, writer and activist. She was dean of Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina from 1885 to 1887 and principal of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama from 1892 to 1893 under Frederick Douglass. She became a professor at Wilberforce in 189... Read more...

Black History Presents – Daily knowledge: Alice Walker (Day 18)

0 comments, 18/02/2012, by Mr. Blair in African-American Awareness, Black People, Blair History Month, General, my people

Alice Walker Alice Malsenior Walker is an author, poet, and activist. She has written both fiction and essays about race and gender. She is best known for the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple (1982) for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She was the fisrt African-Ame... Read more...

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Black History Presents – Daily knowledge: Rita Dove (Day 16)

0 comments, 16/02/2012, by Mr. Blair in African-American Awareness, Black People, Blair History Month, General, my people

Rita Dove Rita Frances Dove is a poet and author. From 1993-1995 she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position now popularly known as "United States Poet Laureate". She was the first, and to date only, African-American to be appointed since the po... Read more...

@Twitter: Isn’t it Funny? By @LanaDot

0 comments, 16/02/2012, by Lana in A Truth Moment, I Am Not A Rapper, ipad, iphone, Rant, Stupititity All Stars, Technology, The Facebook Killer, twitter

By: Lana Adams My name is Lana Adams. I am a writer, by definition. I am a twenty-something year old, recent graduate of Temple University with a degree in Broadcast Journalism and I am interested in helping people. I want to help people in whatever way that I can, whether it’s informing peop... Read more...

Black History Presents – Daily knowledge: Paul Laurence Dunbar (Day 14)

0 comments, 14/02/2012, by Mr. Blair in African-American Awareness, Black People, Blair History Month, General, my people

Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar was a poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Much of his popular work in his lifetime used a Negro dialect, which helped him become one of the first nationally-accepted African American writers. Much of his writin... Read more...

The Preacher’s Wife + Waiting To Exhale + The Bodyguard (Full Movies)

0 comments, 13/02/2012, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in ::Drop Zone::, Movies, Video

Good natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring for the deprived neighborhood they live in... See full summary » Director: Penny Marshall Writers: Robert Nathan (novel), Robert E. Sherwood (earlier sc... Read more...

Black History Presents – Daily knowledge: John Langston Gwaltney (Day 12)

0 comments, 12/02/2012, by Mr. Blair in African-American Awareness, Black People, Blair History Month, General, my people

John Langston Gwaltney John Langston Gwaltney was a writer and anthropologist focused on African American culture, best known for his book Drylongso: A Self Portrait of Black America. He was a professor of anthropology at the University of Syracuse in New York. Drylongso is a collection of... Read more...

The Tuskegee Airmen (Full Video)

0 comments, 09/02/2012, by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in ::Drop Zone::, Blair History Month, Movies, Video

The true story of how a group of African American pilots overcame racist opposition to become one of the finest US fighter groups in World War II Director: Robert Markowitz Writers: Paris Qualles (teleplay), Trey Ellis (teleplay), and 3 more credits » Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Al... Read more...

Black History Presents – Daily Knowledge: Ishmael Reed (Day 6)

0 comments, 06/02/2012, by Mr. Blair in African-American Awareness, Black People, Blair History Month, General

Ishmael Reed Ishmael Reed is a poet, essayist, and novelist. A prominent African-American literary figure, Reed is known for his satirical works challenging American political culture, and highlighting political and cultural oppression. Reed has been described as one of the most controversial ... Read more...