The Triumph of a Negro Over one hundred years following the abolition of slavery, some African Americans still feel confined. They feel that they're still oppressed and are made to feel like aliens in the very nation that was built from the sweat and blood of their ancestors. On the othe...

Imagine being a young black girl growing up in Stamps, Arkansas in the '30s. Back then, white people discriminated against blacks all the time. Maya Angelou, author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, experienced this feeling every day as a child. The title itself is a metaphor in which the c...

OUR AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN African American women have excelled in virtually every arena of the world's spectrum. Born of a desire to succeed, Maggie L. Walker, Shirley Chisolm, Corretta Scott King and Mya Angelou, to name only a few, are sisters that have paved the way towards excell...

A funny thing, though: The man who started the tradition in the 1920s didn't think it would last. He didn't want it to last. Some day, he thought, African Americans and their history would enter the American mainstream. A special day, week or month to tell their stories and study their past ...

A funny thing, though: The man who started the tradition in the 1920s didn't think it would last. He didn't want it to last. Some day, he thought, African Americans and their history would enter the American mainstream. A special day, week or month to tell their stories and study their past s...

A funny thing, though: The man who started the tradition in the 1920s didn't think it would last. He didn't want it to last. Some day, he thought, African Americans and their history would enter the American mainstream. A special day, week or month to tell their stories and study their past ...