Know Your History: Jules Bledsoe
It’s time to get to know legendary performer and Broadway pioneer Jules Bledsoe in this week’s Know Your History!
Know Your History: Etta Barnett
Meet groundbreaking actress and activist Etta Barnett this week in “Know Your History!” Etta Moten was born in Weimar, Texas, and is the only child of Methodist minister, Rev. Freeman F. Moten, and his wife, Ida Norman Moten, who was a teacher. She started singing as a child in the church choir.
Know Your History! Juanita Craft
By: Nevaeh Richardson Did you know that the State Fair of Texas once had a policy of admitting Blacks only on “Negro Achievement Day?” Well, they did, and this woman helped put an end to that. Learn about renowned politician and civil rights activist Juanita Craft in this week’s “Know Your History” feature. Juanita Craft […]
Angela Davis and a walk down memory lane of ‘the revolution’
Angela Davis was no physical threat to them, but she was a mental powerhouse, unshakeable and unbreakable as she stared the white reporter in the eyes, answering his questions that he thought were hard-hitting, and she thought were idiotic and simplistic from a person who had no idea of what it meant to be Black in America.
