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Purpose – This paper, via the use of management and entrepreneurial philosophies from Charles Clinton Spaulding, aims to advocate the integration of African-American Entrepreneurship and Management History into the business curriculum at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) as well as predominantly white institutions (PWIs). Along with this curriculum update, the use of critical pedagogy as a form of critical thinking is also recommended to complement the learning process. Design/methodology/approach – Articles from early and recent newspapers, magazines, journals and books were examined and synthesised to clarify how curriculum modification and critical pedagogy could aid in increased entrepreneurial success. Findings – The paper concludes with a framework that demonstrates the curriculum interface, including Spaulding's insights and critical pedagogy, to connect black students to entrepreneurial success. Originality/value – Although African-Americans surpass Caucasian-Americans in entrepreneurial attempts, blacks lag behind whites in entrepreneurial success. A reason for their higher failure rate is a lack of exposure to positive images who are also black. Integrating African-American Entrepreneurship and Management History into the business curriculum will help ensure that these positive images are sufficiently introduced and explored as a source of learning. Critical pedagogy is also endorsed as a complementary strategy to aid learning, as it is associated with processes that deviate from traditional instruction that often ignores student diversity, to facilitate the expansion of the mind as well as social transformation.

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- Management, Business History, Black History, Management History

This Friday at 2pm Eastern Time (US & Canada) we're pleased to host Dr. Theron Williams and have a conversation over his book 'The Bible is Black History'. Dr. Theron D. Williams is the founder of The Black History Institute,and author of The Bible is Black History, as well as the ‘Great Women of the Bible’ and the children’s book ‘Young Heroes of the Bible’. Dr. Williams uses facts from the Bible, well-respected historians, scientists, and DNA evidence to prove that not only were Black people composed in the biblical Israelite community. Dr. Williams also presents historical evidence that links some in the African-American community to the Lost Tribes of Israel. He also shares historical images from the ancient catacombs that vividly depict the true likeness of the biblical Israelites. This book does not change the biblical text but it will change how you understand it. I hope you can join us for an enlightening conversation.
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- by Modester Y.C. Kamupinda and +2
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- Black Studies Or African American Studies, Biblical Studies, Black History, Biblical Hebrew

Bob Moses was a civil rights pioneer who made a difference in the state of Mississippi, and his indelible impact was felt by a whole generation of voters, which included Anne Moody, author of Coming of Age in Mississippi. Moses died on Sunday, July 25, at his home in Hollywood, Fla. He was 86. This blog post reviews some of Moody’s comments about him in her classic memoir.

The three authors address white teachers teaching Black History, with recommendations for future practice

- by Brianne Pitts and +1
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- Black History, Social Studies, Black History Month, White Teachers

Black public-affairs television programming in New York City
between 1967 and 1968 happened because of a convergence
of several factors. They include (a) the upheavals in urban
America between 1964 and 1967, (b) the release of the Report
of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (a.k.a.,
the Kerner Commission report) and (c) the assassination of
Martin Luther King, the latter two both within months of
each other in 1968. Other equally important factors include
the organic development of Black American-owned and
Black American-oriented media—newspapers and radio
outlets buttressed and informed by more than a century of
Black Left/Nationalist/Pan-Africanist/integrationist intellectual
thought and African-centered/Afrocentric ideology. Using and
critiquing the emerging scholarship on such programming, a
brief historical review of the creation and development of 4==
such shows in 1967 and 1968—WABC-TV’s Like It Is, WNEW-TV’s
Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant, and National Educational Television’s
two locally produced (but nationally broadcast) programs, Black
Journal and Soul!—shows that these programs sought to correct
the Kerner Commission’s critique that the American mass media
show “a White man’s world” by attempting to show, for the first
time, a Black world to large mainstream broadcast markets.

Het is 1759. Jan Christiaan Prijn legt een notariële verklaring af. Hij is de eerst bekende zwarte man in dienst van een Amsterdamse chirurgijn. Geboren in New York, werkte hij hier enkele jaren, voordat hij als lichtmatroos aanmonsterde... more

- by Mark Ponte
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- Black History, Amsterdam, New York
- by Robin Brooks
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- Education, English, Literary Societies, Black History

This article connects the release of the Emancipation Proclamation to the historic March on Washington.

- by Karsonya (Kaye) Wise Whitehead
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- Civil Rights, Emancipation, Civil Rights Movement, Black History
- by Shaundra Paasch
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- Military History, Civil War, Black History, Ethnic Conflict and Civil War

In this essay I examine the racial achievement gap in American education in terms of an impaired psychosocial developmental process. I argue that the well-documented academic underperformance of certain minority groups may stem from the unfavorable resolution of a key developmental crisis in constituent members’ early scholastic experience. I go on to suggest that individual educators can play an important role in eliminating the achievement gap by changing the way they teach in their own classrooms. In part, they may do so by adopting a "transcultural" pedagogy or teaching style, according to which both teachers and their minority students develop (at minimum) transcultural proficiencies and (at maximum) transcultural identities, as a promising way to achieve two important ends. First, the fostering of an academically-industrious self-concept in members of historically underachieving minority groups and hence, second, the closing of the achievement gap "from the bottom up"—one classroom at a time.

- by Brian D . Earp
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- Sociology, Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, Social Theory

Reviews "Black History: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed," the 1968 CBS News television documentary [DVD release by Phoenix Learning Group, 2008]. The program was narrated by Bill Cosby. Andy Rooney received an Emmy Award for the script. The 54-minute program had five parts. (1) Cosby introduces African Americans who made an impact in U.S. history but were never recognized in the history books. (2) the mental legacy of slavery and discrimination, demonstrated through Emanuel Hammer's use of projective drawing interpretation analysis. (3) Clips of racist stereotyping in Hollywood films. (4) How children's paintings illustrate how African American students can be harmed by racial attitudes. (5) John Elliott Churchville's project to develop the self-esteem and self-confidence of African-American students.

Segregation, known colloquially in the US as Jim Crow, was an outgrowth of the Maafa and is the trans-Atlantic uncle of the Holocaust. Antebellum America and pre-Renaissance Germany share a history of minority disenfranchisement and subjugation; these peculiar institutions transformed into state-sponsored terrorism and genocide in their respective nations. While there are obviously many differences in these countries application of separation, their similarities in worldview, social stratification and economic manipulation are more than just aesthetic; they have created a lasting legacy of racial and cultural intolerance amalgamated with political correctness. Ideally, the powerpoint should be viewed, while reading the report.

- by Lewis Cairns
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- History, Political Sociology, Civil Law, International Relations

The Natchez Museum of African American History and Culture is the first museum to tell the full story of African Americans in Natchez, Miss., a city on the Mississippi River that is located in the southwest part of the state. Since its founding in 1990 by the Natchez Association for the Preservation of African American Culture, the Museum has become an essential resource for the study of local history. This article gives an overview of the Museum's history. Additionally, it provides a description of its exhibits, tours, programs, and community support.

- by Roscoe Barnes III and +1
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- History of Slavery, American Civil War, African American History, Black History

Afro-Amsterdam was not like what you think it was! During the 17th century, the African community lived amicably with the white community in the neighborhood where Rembrandt's home was located. Amsterdam's Rembranthuis museum opens up an... more

- by Urvi Chheda
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- Art History, Museum Studies, Contemporary Art, Black History

After the US Civil War, James D. Williams, a former slave, took refuge with the 11th Wisconsin Infantry and migrated north with a Welsh immigrant veteran, settling in the Welsh Settlement near Rewey, Wisconsin. This article discusses both how the antislavery cause made the Welsh receptive to Williams's presence, and also recognizes the racism he likely experienced. Also considered is Williams's place in the wider context of Black history in Southwestern Wisconsin and the relationship between Wales, Welsh Americans and the African diaspora.

- by Robert Humphries
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- Slavery, Race and Ethnicity, Black History, Wisconsin History
- by Joel Feingold
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- American History, Popular Music, Jewish History, Black History

This research examines a broad range of racial issues that have coloured literature in English from historical times to the present day. Views/quotes from famous personalities are sampled in order to give insights into the nature of racism in the literary arts and its impact on the psyches of individual artists. The said personalities include Toni Morrison, Amiri Baraka, Milan Kundera, Dr. John Henrk Clarke, Elspesth Huxley, Zora Neale Hurston, Angela Davis, W.E.B DuBois, Alice Walker, James Baldwin, John H. Johnson, Gil Scott-Heron, Binyavanga Wainaina, Ntozake Shange, Tyler Perry and Dick Gregory. This paper shows that although there has been progress since the days of the 'Slave Narratives', the shadow of racism still hangs over the literary world, especially for Black writers.

- by Alexander Nderitu
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- Cultural Studies, African Studies, World Literatures, Comparative Literature
- by Leah P . Hollis and +1
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- Education, Segregation, Black History
- by Pausa Kaio (PK) Thompson
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- Religion, Theology, Critical Thinking, Critical Race Theory

In this article, the authors argue that the development of high school Black history courses are missing a key element-a Black historical consciousness. Using an example from a school district in Missouri, they explore the history, content, curriculum, pedagogy, and limitations of a course that combines Black Studies with Black history and literature. They examine how a reconceptualization of this course is possible and suggest that all educational stakeholders could benefits from this new approach.

- by Greg Simmons
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- Teacher Education, Social Studies Education, Curriculum Studies, Urban Education

Black history of Alameda is largely unknown and overlooked. Of the scant attention Black Alamedans have received, most focuses on the post- World War II population. This presentation examines the lives of early Black pioneers of Alameda,... more

- by Rasheed Shabazz
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- History, Black History, California History, Alameda

SILENT BEACHES transports the reader into the extraordinary past and present embedded in New York City's more than 600 miles of coastline through a stunning selection of rare photographs, history, new fiction and poetry, and contemporary art. Eric W. Sanderson, author of Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City, calls it a "fascinating and poignant combination," a portrait of "New York City on the margins. In the early 21st century city we are so focused on growth, and the consequences of that growth, for better or worse, that we forget how the city also leaves places and people behind. Sandy Ground, Hart Island, Gowanus Creek, Dead Horse Bay, and other off-the-beaten track locales, remind us that abandonment, decay, isolation, and death, are also part of our experience on this particular verge between land and sea. You and your contributors give voice to the bright dreams and restless forces that transform."
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- by Bart Schultz
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- Black History

Lucille Spence Byard is one of the most pivotal figures in the history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Her rejection for medical treatment due to her race at an Adventist sanitarium on the Maryland-Washington, D.C., border in 1943 was the major catalyst for the formation of regional conferences, or Black-administered governance units, within the North American administrative structure of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. However, almost since the day Lucy Byard was refused treatment, the major details of the event have been subject to the whim of the teller, and variant versions have become embedded in church lore. What has been particularly problematic, though, is that historians have not made the effort to explore what actually happened to Byard, which would require bypassing the entrenched legends and consulting primary sources. This article reconstructs the Byard event from primary sources, allowing the participants in the event, especially those of color, to be heard. What finally emerges is Lucy Byard the person-much more than just an icon of tragedy-whose last days sparked the most effective grassroots movement in Adventist history.

- by Benjamin Baker
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- Christianity, Race and Racism, Race and Ethnicity, Black History

Clinton Clad-Johnson travels to Montgomery County to visit Kentland Farm plantation, Virginia Tech, and the Wake Forest Community for the purpose of gathering resources regarding slavery at Kentland Farm and the lives of the familial... more

The Venture Smith homestead is an important eighteenth-century rural black archaeological site with a remarkable level of integrity, associated with a person significant to American history. Born about 1729, Broteer Furro was an African prince abducted and sold into slavery when only six years old. Thirty years a slave, he purchased his and his family’s freedom and became a prosperous mariner-merchant-farmer and benefactor to fellow blacks. At his death in 1805, he owned over 100 acres of farmland, three houses, outbuildings, a wharf, and numerous watercraft. Respected by white neighbors/associates to whom he was known as Venture Smith, he became a local folk hero. Historical documents speak of his integrity, courage and strength. Smith’s life story is critically important to the study of slavery in New England, to African-American history, and to American cultural heritage. He is the focus of ongoing research across several continents. The BBC produced a film on his life: A Slave’s Story (2007). For reasons to be discussed, though not formally a State Archaeological Preserve, the Venture Smith site warrants consideration as a National Historic Landmark.

- by Lucianne M Lavin and +1
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- Black Studies Or African American Studies, Historical Anthropology, Historical Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology

Warren, Maine is located in the midcoast region of southeastern Maine. The small town has a long history that is intrinsically linked to the maritime activities of the region, which began in the mid-seventeenth century. Sometime around 1782, Sarah Peters was brought to Warren as a slave on a ship owned by Captain James McIntyre. After slavery was outlawed in Massachusetts in 1783/1784, Sarah successfully sued for her freedom and married a man named Amos Peters. Together, they raised a large, mixed-racial family, and settled near South Pond, a good distance away from the main village. By the 1820s, they had their own school district, were part of the Baptist church, and had a good deal of land. Their population and wealth peaked in the 1850s and 1860s, with as many as eighty-two mixed-race people living in the village of Peterborough. This thesis focuses on how African American and mixed-racial communities were able to establish themselves in maritime northern New England in the years prior to the Civil War, particularly during the antebellum period. Peterborough is a case study toward understanding African American communities outside of the plantation setting, and their relationships between agriculture and the sea.

- by Kate McMahon
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- History, American Studies, Archaeology, Material Culture Studies