On October 16th, 1968, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, two Black American track and field stars, stood on the Olympic podiums to receive their medals and made a statement that resonated through sports, this country, and the world. It is one of the most iconic moments in sports history, Black…
In Spring 1963, The Negro and the American Promise aired on WGBH, a public television station in Boston. The show was hosted by Dr. Kenneth Clark, Psychology Professor at City College of New York, co-founder of the Northside Center for Child Development in Harlem, the Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited, and…
*Updated from a February 1st, 2018 Black Like Vanilla IG Post Negro History Week, now celebrated as Black History Month, was founded in 1926 by the renowned Black historian Carter G, Woodson. But its history goes back even further. In 1915, Woodson and the minister Jesse E. Moorland founded the Association For…
tl:dr folks, scroll down to the large bold text below. Baldwin’s Nigger is a 1969 documentary by Trinidadian-born British filmmaker Horace Ové, who was one of the leading Black British independent filmmakers to emerge in the UK post-war. In it, James Baldwin, the iconic Black writer, civil rights activist, and professional reader…
We often hear about the men of the Civil Rights Movement, but rarely enough light is shined on the women who stood front and center in leading it. One of those women who was monumental in jump-starting the wave of activism we credit Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his…