February 23, 2008
Profile: Malcolm X
Fourth profile.
Entries Tagged as ‘Black History Month’
February 11, 2008
Profile: Black Wall Street
Third profile. Black Wall Street was at the centre of a major event in US history, the Tulsa Race Riot, on June 1, 1921.
“Black Wall Street” (also “Little Africa”) was the name given to Greenwood District, a wealthy black neighbourhood in northern Tulsa, Oklahoma. The neighbourhood came to existence during a heavily segregated era in [...]
February 5, 2008
Profile: Patrice Lumumba
This is my second ‘profile’, this time not on a figure relevant to black history in the US and Canada, but a great African leader who lost his life in the struggle for African independence from imperialism and colonization.
Patrice Lumumba was the first, and democratically elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, after [...]
February 2, 2008
Profile: Yarrow Mamout
Since it’s February, the coldest, shortest and darkest month of the year, which also happens to be the token ‘Black History Month’, I plan on doing a few of these sort of profiles over the course the next few weeks. I’m trying to profile people who aren’t always too well known, but still important nonetheless.
Yarrow [...]
