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8 of Martin Luther King Jr.'s memorable speeches

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Martin Luther King Jr. is well known for his "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963, but he gave a lot of other moving talks during his years of activism.

"Our God is Marching On," "A Time to Break the Silence," and "The Other America" are all moving speeches from King that many have not heard.

His final speech, "I've Been to the Mountaintop," is also famous for being strangely prophetic, as he was killed the next day.

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As one of the most iconic leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963.

Throughout his fight for equality, King delivered a number of speeches that drew large audiences but got lost in the shadow of "I Have a Dream." As a master orator, the reverend was able to inspire an entire nation, so many of his speeches are worth a revisit.

Here are some of King's inspirational words that you may have missed in history class.

Montgomery Bus Boycott speech - Montgomery, Alabama, on December 5, 1955

When Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus, she sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and gave King one of his first opportunities to make a public speech. It was in this speech that he introduced some of his now-famous ideas, including nonviolent protests.

"Now let us go out to stick together and stay with this thing until the end," King said in the speech. "Now it means sacrificing, yes, it means sacrificing at points. But there are some things that we've got to learn to sacrifice for. And we've got to come to the point that we are determined not to accept a lot of things that we have been accepting in the past."

The speech catapulted the reverend into the national spotlight and made him one of the front-runners in the Civil Rights Movement.
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"Proud to be maladjusted" - Dartmouth College in 1962

Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech at Dartmouth College in 1962 is sometimes forgotten, but it's a great example of the reverend's powerful rhetoric. In the talk, he first explains the sociological term "maladjusted" as someone who cannot accept social norms and society. But King turns the entire term on its head, saying he is happy to be maladjusted if it means adapting to racism and a society built against him and his people.

"But I say to you, my friends, as I move to my conclusion, there are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize," he said in the speech. "I say very honestly that I never intend to become adjusted to segregation and discrimination."

Acceptance speech at Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony - December 10, 1964

In 1964, King was 35 years old and the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize. At the time of his honor, it had been a year since his famous "I Have a Dream" speech and the country just passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Along with the honor, he was given $54,600, which he donated to the movement.

Here's a snippet of his acceptance speech:

"I must ask why this prize is awarded to a movement which is beleaguered and committed to unrelenting struggle, and to a movement which has not yet won the very peace and brotherhood which is the essence of the Nobel Prize," King said. "After contemplation, I conclude that this award, which I receive on behalf of that movement, is a profound recognition that nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to violence and oppression."

At the end of his speech, he called peace "more precious than diamonds or silver or gold."
Read More: 32 things you probably didn't know about Martin Luther King Jr.

"Our God is Marching On" - Selma, Alabama, on March 25, 1965

In March 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. marched with 25,000 people from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to fight for African American voting rights. At the end of the march, the reverend gave his " Our God is Marching On" speech, which marked a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. Instead of focusing on legal and political rights, King's speech prompted the movement to fight for economic equality.

At the end of the speech, King used a call-and-response technique that made this speech truly iconic.

"How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever. How long? Not long, you shall reap what you sow. How long? Not long ... How long? Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice," King said.

"Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence" - Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967

King's speech " Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence" is well known because of the debate it sparked. He gave the anti-Vietnam speech when the country still supported the war. King received extreme backlash, especially for attempting to unite the peace movement with the Civil Rights Movement. The reverend's controversial views caused him to lose many supporters, including African American followers. Many say this is the speech that made him a target, as he was assassinated exactly one year later.

"We are taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them 8,000 miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in Southwest Georgia and East Harlem," he said the speech.

"The Other America" - Stanford University on April 14, 1967

Just ten days after his controversial "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence" speech, the reverend gave another iconic speech at Stanford University. This time, he focused on the inequality between whites and blacks in America. In " The Other America" he talked about how the poverty gap and economic injustice were a result of racism.

"One America is beautiful for situation ... millions of young people grow up in the sunlight of opportunity," he says in the speech. "But tragically and unfortunately, there is another America. This other America has a daily ugliness about it that constantly transforms the ebullience of hope into the fatigue of despair ... They find themselves perishing on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity."

"The Three Evils of Society" - The Hungry Club Forum in Atlanta on May 10, 1967

In 1967, King visited the Hungry Club Forum, which was comprised of white politicians who met out of public view to discuss the idea of helping African Americans earn their rights. In May, King gave a speech highlighting the progress that had been made, but much of his speech focused on the three problems that blacks face: racism, poverty, and war.

"For those who are telling me to keep my mouth shut, I can't do that," he said at the end of his speech. "I'm against segregation at lunch counters, and I'm not going to segregate my moral concerns. And we must know on some positions, cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there're times when you must take a stand that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but you must do it because it is right."

"I've Been to the Mountaintop" - Memphis, Tennessee on April 3, 1968

Just one day before he was assassinated, King gave his final speech " I've Been to the Mountaintop." He gave the speech to a packed church of workers protesting working conditions. In the talk, the reverend emphasized his main beliefs: unifying African Americans and the importance of nonviolent protests.

But the speech is most known for being oddly prophetic, seeming to predict his death just the next day, highlighting the fact that he has accepted his fate.

"Well, I don't know what will happen now," King said in his final speech. "We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop. Like anybody I would like to live a long life, longevity has its place but I'm not concerned about that now ... And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land."

He ended the speech with: "I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord."

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8 inspirational speeches from Martin Luther King Jr. that aren't 'I Have a Dream'

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Martin Luther King Jr. is well known for his "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963, but he gave a lot of other moving talks during his years of activism. "Our God is Marching On," "A Time to Break the Silence," and "The Other America" are all moving speeches from King that many have not heard.

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Objects hold history. They're evocative of stories stamped in time. As part of The Washington Post's coverage of the Smithsonian's new National Museum of African American History and Culture, people submitted dozens of objects that make up their own lived experiences of black history, creating a "people's museum" of personal objects, family photos and more.

The Historically Black podcast brings those objects and their stories to life through interviews, archival sound and music. The Washington Post and APM Reports are proud to collaborate in presenting these rich personal histories, along with hosts Keegan-Michael Key, Roxane Gay, Issa Rae and Another Round hosts Heben Nigatu and Tracy Clayton.

1619 Some 20 enslaved Africans arrive at Britain's Jamestown colony in Virginia.

1776 Thirteen colonies issue "Declaration of Independence" and establish United States of America.

1788 United States Constitution adopted. It declares enslaved individuals as three-fifths of a person and includes a fugitive slave clause.

1808 Congress bans further importation of slaves.

1820 Missouri Compromise bans slavery north of Missouri's southern border.

1831 Nat Turner leads slave rebellion in Virginia.

1857 U.S. Supreme Court hands down Dred Scott decision, which denies citizenship to slaves, former slaves and their descendants.

1860 Abraham Lincoln elected president.

1861 Civil War begins.

Members of an extended Tennessee family talk about their great, great grandfather, a slave owned by his white, biological father. After emancipation, their ancestor managed to buy a farm. Family members reflect on the strength it took to survive slavery and to prosper in the years that followed. Listen.

1863 President Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation.

1865 Civil War ends. Slavery is abolished by 13th Amendment to Constitution. President Lincoln is assassinated. Ku Klux Klan founded in Pulaski, Tenn.

1866 Congress passes first Civil Rights Act, granting African Americans full citizenship and equal rights to whites. Southern states pass laws known as "Black Codes" to limit black freedom.

1870 Hiram Rhodes Revels of Mississippi (Senate) and Joseph Rainey of South Carolina (House) become the first African Americans elected to Congress.

Born into slavery, William Hooper Councill founded one of the nation's first HBCUs, Alabama A&M University. Negotiating the racial politics of Reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow was dangerous work. Councill was a peer of Booker T. Washington's and is remembered for his accommodating stance toward whites. His complicated story helps us understand the times he lived in and the legacy of HBCUs. Listen.

1877 President Rutherford B. Hayes withdraws last Federal troops from South. Reconstruction era ends. Rise of Jim Crow laws enforcing harsh racial segregation in the South.

1881 Booker T. Washington appointed first head of Tuskegee Institute.

1909 W. E. B. Du Bois co-founds National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination."

1914 Marcus Garvey forms Universal Negro Improvement Association, a black nationalist fraternal organization.

1915 Start of the Great Migration; more than six million African Americans move from southern states to the west and north.

1917 United States enters WWI.

1920s The emergence of the Harlem Renaissance, a black social and cultural movement in New York and other communities.

1929 Stock market crash; beginning of Great Depression.

1939 Marian Anderson gives free concert at Lincoln Memorial on Easter, with 75,000 people in attendance.

1941 United States enters WWII after Japanese warplanes bomb Pearl Harbor.

During World War II, a labor shortage obliged the military to hire African American women with mathematical skills to help make complicated computations for warplane designs. This small team of black women faced discrimination but eventually would help NASA astronauts land on the moon. One woman whose grandmother was a "computer" helps tell the story. Listen.

1945 End of WWII.

1947 Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

1948 President Harry S. Truman orders desegregation of Armed Forces and use of fair employment practices in federal agencies.

1950 Start of Korean War.

1954 U.S. Supreme Court issues Brown v. Board of Education decision, striking down principal of "separate but equal."

1955 NAACP member Rosa Parks refuses to give up bus seat to white passenger, kicking off Montgomery bus boycott.

1955 Start of American involvement in Vietnam.

1957 Martin Luther King, Jr. is elected president of newly founded Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

1962 Whites at University of Mississippi riot in opposition to registration of a black student named James Meredith.

1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: King delivers "I have a Dream Speech" to massive crowd on the National Mall.

1963 President John F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

1964 Civil Rights Act signed into law.

1965 Malcolm X assassinated in New York City. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads march from Selma to Montgomery, AL, after civil rights protestors, including John Lewis, were severely beaten in Selma.

1965 Voting Rights Act signed into law.

1965-68 Summer rioting in African American sections of Los Angeles, Newark, Detroit and other U.S. cities.

1967 U.S. Supreme Court hands down Loving v. Virginia ruling, outlawing ban on interracial marriage.

1969 The U.S. lands first man on the moon.

1969 Rep. Shirley Chisholm becomes the first African American woman elected to Congress.

1984 Reverend Jesse Jackson runs for president in Democratic primary, winning one-fourth of votes.

1988 Toni Morrison wins Pulitzer Prize for Beloved.

1991 Start of Gulf War.

The Million Man March of 1995 is recreated through the conversation between a young woman and her father, who attended it. He talks about how the event changed his life, and she recalls what it meant to see a poster of the march hanging on the wall of her father's den since she was a girl. Listen.

1995 Minister Louis Farrakhan hosts Million Man March in Washington, D.C.

2001 Terrorist attack on 9/11; start of war in Afghanistan.

2004 Condoleeza Rice is first African American to serve as U.S. Secretary of State.

2008 Barack Obama elected first African American president of United States.

2015 Supreme Court rules that same-sex marriage is a Constitutional right.

In February 2017, Historically Black was distributed to public radio stations nationwide and heard as a three-part series.

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Notes of a native son: The world according to James Baldwin - Christina Greer

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Notes of a native son: The world according to James Baldwin - Christina Greer

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Racism in America was rampant during Baldwin's lifetime and the injustices he witnessed were fuel for his detailed analysis of the arresting portrait of racial strife in which he held white America accountable, but he also went further, arguing that racism hurt white people too.

If you read the various novels written by Baldwin or watch his debates and speeches, you will discover a man who has thought deeply about his placement in the country of his birth, but also as a Black American man living abroad and analyzing his country from afar.

If James Baldwin were alive today, what do you think his primary agenda would be? Do you think he would choose to leave the country permanently during this political climate? Overt racism is not the same today as it was during Baldwin's lifetime. However, what other systems, institutions, and practices are currently being used to maintain the racial oppressions Baldwin famously wrote about?

Many people do not see racism as an ill that effects individuals and groups, both in the United States and abroad. Because inequality has taken many different forms since the time period in which Baldwin wrote, some people do not see racism, homophobia, and inequality as major concerns of today.

Indeed, race relations in America have gotten better (or at least evolved). Although the types of racism are not as prevalent as they once were, there are still much more work to be done to provide racial and economic equality. Why do you think so many refuse to recognize racial inequality as a major problem in American society? Baldwin witnessed his friends Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, ad Dr Martin Luther King be assassinated for speaking out against racism and inequality. Why do you think Baldwin had the courage to write and speak about these issues during a time when it was dangerous to do so? Do you think you would have had the courage of James Baldwin if you lived during his time?

Have a conversation with someone of a different race, gender, sexuality, or age. What has been their experience living in the U.S.? What were the experiences of their parents or grandparents? Do you know other people who have read the writing of James Baldwin? Do they know about the history of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States?

Imagine you were James Baldwin. What would you change about racial and sexual orientation discrimination? How would you ensure that all Americans are given equal treatment for generations to come?

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Notes of a native son: The world according to James Baldwin - Christina Greer

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In the 1960s, the FBI amassed almost 2,000 documents in an investigation into one of America's most celebrated minds. The subject of this inquiry was a writer named James Baldwin, one of the best-selling Black authors in the world at the time. What made him loom so large in the imaginations of both the public and the authorities?

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Lewis Hamilton's Charity, Mission 44, aims to empower young people from underserved groups and spur them onto success.

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Lewis Hamilton's Charity, Mission 44, aims to empower young people from underserved groups and spur them onto success.

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Every young person deserves the chance to thrive no matter what their background.

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Let Nobody Turn us Around-voices of resistance, reform, and renewal: an African American Anthology

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Let Nobody Turn us Around-voices of resistance, reform, and renewal: an African American Anthology

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Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology, Second Edition

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One of America's most prominent historians and a noted feminist bring together the most important political writings and testimonials from African-Americans over three centuries.

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#ReclaimMLKDay, Black Lives Matter disrupts MLKDay parades across the country, Atlanta, GA

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Blog - Posted on Tuesday, Sep 29

The re-energized efforts of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020 shone a light on many corners of Black culture. For lots of readers, this moment provided fresh inspiration to seek out new Black authors and to explore the rich variety of Black literature, whose stories span both borders and generations, illuminating a huge variety of experiences.

From 20th century classics that crystallized pivotal moments in the fight for civil rights, to hilarious novels, gripping fantasy, and 2020 bestsellers that continue to navigate complex social tensions - we've gathered together seventy of the best books by Black authors that belong on your 'TBR'.

Our hand-picked list includes several famous black authors you might recognize - Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin - as well as some of the most promising up-and-coming names. Within our 'Fiction' section, you'll find Black voices represented in a huge range of genres; and we've devoted additional sections to nonfiction, poetry, and Young Adult fiction (we know how important it is for young people to be represented in the books they read). So let's dive in!

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With the re-energized efforts of the BLM movement inspiring us to shine a light on Black voices, here are 70 books by Black authors that you need on your TBR, from 20th century classics to 2020 bestsellers.

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Black History Month was created to focus attention on the contributions of African Americans to the United States. It honors all Black people from all periods of U.S. history, from the enslaved people first brought over from Africa in the early 17th century to African Americans living in the United States today.

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Since the first Negro History Week in 1926, other countries have joined the United States in celebrating Black people and their contribution to history and culture, including Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands.

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The skies had never seen a pilot like Bessie Coleman before. She was the first African-American woman to obtain an international pilot’s license, soaring to new heights that Black people in the United States had never reached before. But as a Black woman in the 1920s, she faced many obstacles because of her race and gender. She would say that “the air is the only place free from prejudice.”

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The skies had never seen a pilot like Bessie Coleman before. She was the first African-American woman to obtain an international pilot's license, soaring to new heights that Black people in the United States had never reached before. But as a Black woman in the 1920s, she faced many obstacles because of her race and gender. She would say that "the air is the only place free from prejudice."

Coleman was born in Atlanta, Texas, on January 26, 1892, the 10th of 13 children. Her mother was African American, and her father's ancestors were Black and Choctaw, a Native American people; they were both sharecroppers who picked cotton for a landowner.

When she was young, her family moved to Waxahachie, Texas, where she attended segregated schools (meaning Black children went to separate schools, which usually weren't as good as schools for white children). She enrolled in Oklahoma Colored Agricultural and Normal University in 1910 but had to drop out because she didn't have the money to pay for school.

She eventually moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1915 and worked in a barber shop painting fingernails. When her brother John returned from fighting in France during World War I, he told stories of the freedom that women overseas enjoyed. They could be pilots, he said. That sparked Bessie's new dream: to be an aviatrix.

She saved up money and applied to U.S. flight schools. But every school rejected her because she was Black and a woman. Finally, Robert Abbott, the publisher of an African-American newspaper called the Chicago Defender, suggested she try schools in France. She learned French, left the United States, and enrolled in the Cauldron Brothers' School of Aviation in Le Crotoy, France. She earned her international pilot's license on June 15, 1921, within a year of enrolling. Afterward she studied stunt flying across Europe.

When she returned to the United States in 1922 as an aerial acrobat, Coleman amazed Black and white audiences with her daredevil feats. Known as "Queen Bess" and "Brave Bessie," she would do loops, barrel rolls, and figure eights in her plane-she'd even walk on the wings and parachute out. She also used her fame to fight racism and segregation, refusing to fly in shows that forced Black and white spectators to enter through separate gates.

In 1923, Coleman survived a bad accident that left her with a broken leg and ribs. But soon she recovered and started doing stunts at air shows again. Her goal was to open a school for Black pilots, but she never completed that dream. On April 30, 1926, she died in another plane accident caused by a loose wrench lodging into the engine's controls. But her courageous feats of flight have inspired a fleet of Black women pilots who came after her and journeyed to the sky.

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The skies had never seen a pilot like Bessie Coleman before. She was the first African-American woman to obtain an international pilot's license, soaring to new heights that Black people in the United States had never reached before. But as a Black woman in the 1920s, she faced many obstacles because of her race and gender.

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To George Washington Carver, peanuts were like paintbrushes: They were tools to express his imagination. Carver was a scientist and an inventor who found hundreds of uses for peanuts. He experimented with the legumes to make lotions, flour, soups, dyes, plastics, and gasoline—though not peanut butter!

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To George Washington Carver, peanuts were like paintbrushes: They were tools to express his imagination. Carver was a scientist and an inventor who found hundreds of uses for peanuts. He experimented with the legumes to make lotions, flour, soups, dyes, plastics, and gasoline-though not peanut butter!

Carver was born an enslaved person in the 1860s in Missouri. The exact date of his birth is unclear, but some historians believe it was around 1864, just before slavery was abolished in 1865. As a baby, George, his mother, and his sister were kidnapped from the man who enslaved them, Moses Carver. The kidnappers were slave raiders who planned to sell them. Moses Carver found George before he could be sold, but not his mother and sister. George never saw them again.

After slavery was abolished, George was raised by Moses Carver and his wife. He worked on their farm and in their garden, and became curious about plants, soils, and fertilizers. Neighbors called George "the plant doctor" because he knew how to nurse sick plants back to life. When he was about 13, he left to attend school and worked hard to get his education.

In 1894 he became the first Black person to graduate from Iowa State College, where he studied botany and fungal diseases, and later earned a master's degree in agriculture. In 1896, Booker T. Washington offered him a teaching position at Tuskegee Institute, a college for African Americans.

There, Carver's research with peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans flourished. He made agricultural advancements to help improve the lives of poor Black farmers like himself. With the help of his mobile classroom, the Jesup Wagon, he brought his lessons to former enslaved farmworkers and used showmanship to educate and entertain people about agriculture.

On January 5, 1943, Carver died after falling down some stairs. But his contributions to the field of agriculture would not be forgotten. Carver became the first Black scientist to be memorialized in a national monument, which was erected near his birthplace in Diamond Grove, Missouri.

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How this scientist nurtured the land-and people's minds

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I wish this was more than a one-room exhibit, but it's at the Met right now (Pay What You Can if you're a New York resident or a Tri-State area student) and it's a really cool exhibition imagining what a Seneca Village home might have looked like if the community had been allowed to thrive.

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Seneca Village-a vibrant nineteenth-century community of predominantly Black landowners and tenants-flourished in an area just west of The Met, in what is now Central Park. By the 1850s, the village comprised some fifty homes, three churches, multiple cemeteries, a school, and many gardens. It represented both an escape from the crowded and dangerous confines of lower Manhattan and a site of opportunity, ownership, freedom, and prosperity. In 1857, to make way for the park, the city used eminent domain to seize Seneca Village land, displacing its residents and leaving only the barest traces of the community behind.

This project has roots in the homes of Seneca Village, of which only a fragmented history remains. Like other period rooms throughout the Museum, this installation is a fabrication of a domestic space that assembles furnishings to create an illusion of authenticity. Unlike these other spaces, this room rejects the notion of one historical period and embraces the African and African diasporic belief that the past, present, and future are interconnected and that informed speculation may uncover many possibilities. Powered by Afrofuturism-a transdisciplinary creative mode that centers Black imagination, excellence, and self-determination-this construction is only one proposition for what might have been, had Seneca Village been allowed to thrive into the present and beyond.

The title, Before Yesterday We Could Fly, is inspired by Virginia Hamilton's legendary retellings of the Flying African tale, which celebrates enslaved peoples' imagination, creative uses of flight, and the significance of spirituality and mysticism to Black communities in the midst of great uncertainty. Activated through vision, sound, and storytelling, and furnished with a kaleidoscope of works from The Met's collection-from Bamileke beadwork and 19th-century American ceramics to contemporary art and design that celebrates rich and diverse traditions-the room foregrounds generations of African diasporic creativity. Before Yesterday We Could Fly also celebrates a number of new acquisitions made specifically for the project and is animated by exciting commissions from Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Fabiola Jean-Louis, and Jenn Nkiru.

In keeping with the collaborative spirit of Afrofuturism, The Met's curatorial team worked with lead curator Hannah Beachler, who envisioned and designed this space with consulting curator Michelle Commander. Since 2019, the group has engaged numerous creative and intellectual partners to infuse the installation with additional ideas and perspectives. Here, at a vital intersection at the heart of the Museum, this project opens a space for yet more histories to be told that look toward a more resilient future.

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The exhibition is made possible by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation and the Director's Fund.

Additional support is provided by Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne and the Terra Foundation for American Art.

The Met's quarterly Bulletin program is supported in part by the Lila Acheson Wallace Fund for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, established by the cofounder of Reader's Digest.

This exhibition features ambient audio for the five-channel digital video installed in the Living Room and Television section.

For assistive listening, join our free WiFi network (MetMuseumFreeWiFi) and select the short URL below to connect to exhibition-specific content.

First-time users will need to select the short URL a second time after downloading the "Listen Everywhere" app.
metmuseum.org/AFPR-listen ing

Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room Bulletin

The Met's latest Bulletin features texts that honor the real, lived history of the Seneca Village residents and explores works by Black creators from the eighteenth century to the present day through the lens of Afrofuturism. The publication also includes an original graphic novella by author and illustrator John Jennings.

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Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina

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Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina

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Focusing on the work of African American potters in the 19th-century American South—in dialogue with contemporary artistic responses—the exhibition presents approximately 50 ceramic objects from Old Edgefield District, South Carolina, a center of stoneware production in the decades before the Civil War.

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The Power of Portraiture: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints

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The Power of Portraiture: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints

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"The current installation explores themes of artistic lineage and homage with a primary focus on portraiture. At its heart are works by members of Black Women of Print, a collective founded by Tanekeya Word to promote the visibility of Black women printmakers and create an equitable future within the discipline of printmaking. These dynamic images pay tribute to earlier Black women artists, among them Elizabeth Catlett and Emma Amos, whose works are also on view. Their prints, along with those by Lorna Simpson, Charles White, Fred Wilson, and John Wilson, reveal the expressive potential of portraiture. By depicting both anonymous sitters and well-known figures such as Malcolm X, Lena Horne, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., these artists call attention to the relationship of representation and power. Willie Cole’s monumental works further extend the boundaries of the genre, using steam irons and ironing boards to point to histories of unrecognized labor."

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The Department of Drawings and Prints boasts more than one million drawings, prints, and illustrated books made in Europe and the Americas from around 1400 to the present day. Because of their number and sensitivity to light, the works can only be exhibited for a limited period and are usually housed in on-site storage facilities. To highlight the vast range of works on paper, the department organizes four rotations a year in the Robert Wood Johnson, Jr. Gallery. Each installation is the product of a collaboration among curators and consists of up to 100 objects grouped by artist, technique, style, period, or subject.

Featuring a dazzling selection of prints and drawings ranging in date from the early seventeenth century to the present and including several new acquisitions, the current installation explores themes of artistic lineage and homage with a primary focus on portraiture. At its heart are works by members of Black Women of Print, a collective founded by Tanekeya Word to promote the visibility of Black women printmakers and create an equitable future within the discipline of printmaking. These dynamic images pay tribute to earlier Black women artists, among them Elizabeth Catlett and Emma Amos, whose works are also on view. Their prints, along with those by Lorna Simpson, Charles White, Fred Wilson, and John Wilson, reveal the expressive potential of portraiture. By depicting both anonymous sitters and well-known figures such as Malcolm X, Lena Horne, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., these artists call attention to the relationship of representation and power. Willie Cole's monumental works further extend the boundaries of the genre, using steam irons and ironing boards to point to histories of unrecognized labor.

Placed in dialogue with Cole's prints are earlier images of European street vendors and of women engaged in domestic work, revealing the ample but ultimately partial vision of labor put forth by the Western pictorial tradition. Also featured in this rotation is a selection of woodland drawings by artists active in Central Europe between the late eighteenth century and the early twentieth. Together with depictions of narrative subjects set in the woods, these works demonstrate the appeal of the forest as a vehicle for the study of light and color and as a subject embedded with rich associations. Finally, a group of witchcraft scenes by Jacques de Gheyn II, Giovanni David, Francisco de Goya, Eugène Delacroix, and Odilon Redon trace the evolution of nightmare imagery-and the complicated societal values it reflects and perpetuates-across nearly three centuries.

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The Power of Portraiture: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints

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Growing up in the South during a time when Black people did not have the same rights as white people, John Lewis faced racial discrimination—and he did not like it. He fought for equality during the civil rights movement, marching with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., against oppression and risking his life for justice. Through grit and determination, he went from sitting on bus seats as an act of civil disobedience during the Freedom Rides to sitting in the halls of Congress as a champion for civil liberties.

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Growing up in the South during a time when Black people did not have the same rights as white people, John Lewis faced racial discrimination-and he did not like it. He fought for equality during the civil rights movement, marching with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., against oppression and risking his life for justice. Through grit and determination, he went from sitting on bus seats as an act of civil disobedience during the Freedom Rides to sitting in the halls of Congress as a champion for civil liberties.

Lewis was born on February 21, 1940, in rural Alabama. His parents were sharecroppers who worked on a farm picking cotton for landowners. As a young boy, Lewis also picked cotton and did other farm duties with his family. It was hard work, but he enjoyed being with the chickens. Lewis wanted to be a pastor, so he would preach to his feathered flock in the chicken coop while tending to the hens and counting their eggs. His inspiration was King, whose words Lewis listened to on the radio.

Lewis studied at the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville and helped organize lunch sit-ins against segregated restaurants, where Black and white people could not eat together, Sometimes he'd be arrested for his actions, but Lewis accepted being thrown in jail for fighting for what is right, or "good trouble," as he'd later call it. For instance, he was one of 13 original Freedom Riders, who travelled by bus to test laws that were supposed to protect Black people. But he was beaten and jailed several times on his journey.

Lewis's most memorable act of "good trouble" occurred on March 7, 1965, when he led a group of 600 people across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on what would be known as "Bloody Sunday."

Lewis, who was then only 25 years old, marched across the bridge in the fight for equal voting rights for Black people. In his bag he carried just a toothbrush, toothpaste, two books, an orange, and an apple. But he and the other peaceful protesters were met by police officers carrying batons. The police fired tear gas onto the crowd and attacked them, leaving many bloody and wounded. Lewis was knocked unconscious.

The events of Bloody Sunday were caught on camera and televised to the country. They attracted more protests. King joined Lewis and thousands of other protesters to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Their efforts eventually led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which outlawed the discriminatory practices that prevented many Black Americans from voting.

Lewis eventually became a congressman from Georgia in 1987, serving until his death from pancreatic cancer at the age of 80 on July 17, 2020. During his time in Congress he continued his work for civil rights and encouraged young people do the hard work necessary to change the country by getting into "good trouble."

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How this congressman used 'good trouble' to fight for civil rights

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The Two Lives of Sara - Catherine Adel West

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Editorial Reviews

07/25/2022

West draws on characters from her 2020 novel Saving Ruby King in this dramatic if uneven story of a young Black mother who builds a makeshift family. In 1960s Memphis, sharp-tongued Sara King lives and works at the boarding house of the formidable Mama Sugar, who asks no questions of Sara about her background or her obvious resistance to mothering her son, Lebanon, whom she gave birth to shortly after arriving from Chicago. Sara, though, surprises elementary schoolteacher Jonas Coulter, who has taken a special interest in Mama Sugar's grandson Will, by being well-read. Will's shiftless father, Amos, runs afoul of a loan shark, leading to him being beaten and then the arson of the boarding house. As Mama Sugar rebuilds, romance blossoms between Sara and Jonas, who does not hesitate to marry her even after she reveals her reason for fleeing Chicago while pregnant. Just as Sara seems headed for bliss, tragedy strikes, sending her reeling. Though the story tends to drag, West demonstrates careful attention to the realities of the Jim Crow era and the burgeoning civil rights movement. The moments of crisis and quiet reflection will please fans of historical family sagas. Agent: Beth Marshea, Ladderbird Agency. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

Focusing on the interplay between generations as she did in her debut ( Saving Ruby King) West writes with charming precision and intention. Every character is a beautiful, relatable complication. Both masterfully suspenseful and certain to tug at the reader's heartstrings, The Two Lives of Sara solidifies West as a literary force." - Booklist, Starred Review

"In this utterly absorbing and dazzling novel about the stories we tell to stay alive and the secrets we keep to protect ourselves, Catherine Adel West explores the intricacies of family and community as well as the realities of migration, reinvention, and loss. The Two Lives of Sara also celebrates everyday forms of resistance in a racist and divided country and the balm that love, food, and art can still provide. I couldn't put this exquisite book down." -Nancy Jooyoun Kim, New York Times Bestselling author of The Last Story of Mina Lee

"This heartfelt novel about a survivor trying to build a new life among a found family cuts deep. Catherine Adel West has woven a rich story filled with warmth, faith, and hope while also incisively exploring the limits of resilience." -Maisy Card, author of These Ghosts are Family

"I'm in awe of Catherine Adel West's storytelling and her ability to capture the reader's attention from the first page. She magically delves into the many facets of family, friendship and community. The Two Lives of Sara is a wondrous journey that combines everything I adore in a story-resilient Black women, hope, and love!" -Jamise Harper, co-author of Bibliophile: Diverse Spines and founder of the Diverse Spines book community

"A heartfelt story of family, community, and the secrets that won't turn us loose. Through complex characters, exquisite detail, and rich language, West explores the impossible choices we make to protect those we love. A stunning journey of a mother's love and sacrifice." -Nancy Johnson, author of The Kindest Lie

" The Two Lives of Sara completely took my breath away. Catherine Adel West's masterful way with words is vibrant, gut-wrenching, and hauntingly beautiful. Sara's story brought tears to my eyes and will be one that I will continue to revisit for years to come." -Taj McCoy, author of Savvy Sheldon Feels Good As Hell

"Catherine Adel West's beautiful writing is truly a gift - a poetic treasure that engages the heart and the mind." -Wanda M. Morris, Lefty award-winning author of All Her Little Secrets

"A gripping reflection on our need to be loved and our fear of rejection, Catherine Adel West crafts a timeless and complex narrative of family, loss, and what it means to lose faith in religion and ourselves. Sara King and the family she finds at the Scarlet Poplar will stay with you long after the final page." -Lane Clarke, author of Love Times Infinity

" The Two Lives of Sara is a stellar follow-up for Catherine Adel West. The relationships surrounding Sara King are nuanced, complex, and full of small moments that stick with you long after you are done. West has a direct and precise prose that goes straight to the heart of the characters, the story, and the reader." -Morg Rogers, author of Honey Girl

"West has written a book that seems made to be filmed: Weighty conversations about living with segregation and trying to survive despite all the difficulties drive the story. A raw look at life for a Black woman in the segregated South." - Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2022-06-22
In the early 1960s, a pregnant Black woman flees Chicago and makes her way to Memphis.

Sara's life has been difficult, and in Memphis, she finds herself trying to hide from her demons-physical and mental-from back in Chicago. Her best friends, Naomi and Violet, helped her make her way to Memphis, where Naomi's aunt Mama Sugar welcomes her with open arms. In Mama Sugar's boardinghouse, Sara settles in; her son, Lebanon, is born; and the days begin to flow by as she helps take care of Mr. Vanellys, Mama Sugar's husband; Elvin and Buster, two long-term boarders; William, Mama Sugar's grandson; and all the other boarders who come and go on their way through Memphis. Soon Sara's circle expands: There is Mr. Coulter, one of Will's teachers, forever giving Will extra assignments to expand his mind; Cora and Lawrence Morgan, a doctor and his wife from Mama Sugar's church; and Ms. Mavis, a local bakery owner. But this is not a fairy tale, and happy endings are in short supply: Sara's circle also includes Amos, Will's here-now-and-gone-again father, a drinker and gambler; and Lucky, who is willing to do anything to get the money that Amos owes him. The story follows Sara and the others over the course of a few years, as Lebanon grows, good times follow bad times, and joy and tragedy come fast and furious. Author West has written a book that seems made to be filmed: Weighty conversations about living with segregation and trying to survive despite all the difficulties drive the story.

A raw look at life for a Black woman in the segregated South.

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Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Ms. Magazine, The Root, Popsugar, Bustle, and many more!“An utterly absorbing and dazzling novel about the stories we tell to stay alive and the secrets we keep to protect ourselves.” - Nancy...

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It turns out that when a wrenching past is confronted with wisdom and bravery, the outcome can be compassion and enlightenment-both for the reader who has lived through this kind of unimaginable pain and for the reader who knows nothing of it. Roxane Gay shows us how to be decent to ourselves, and decent to one another. HUNGER is an amazing achievement in more ways than I can count.
Ann Patchett, Commonwealth and Bel Canto

At its simplest, it's a memoir about being fat - Gay's preferred term - in a hostile, fat-phobic world. At its most symphonic, it's an intellectually rigorous and deeply moving exploration of the ways in which trauma, stories, desire, language and metaphor shape our experiences and construct our reality.
New York Times

Wrenching, deeply moving. . . a memoir that's so brave, so raw, it feels as if [Gay]'s entrusting you with her soul
Seattle Times

Gay turns to memoir in this powerful reflection on her childhood traumas...Timely and resonant, you can be sure that Hunger will touch a nerve, as so much of Roxane Gay's writing does.
Newsday

This raw and graceful memoir digs deeply into what it means to be comfortable in one's body. Gay denies that hers is a story of "triumph," but readers will be hard pressed to find a better word.
Publishers Weekly (starred review)

A heart-rending debut memoir from the outspoken feminist and essayist. . . . An intense, unsparingly honest portrait of childhood crisis and its enduring aftermath.
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Displays bravery, resilience, and naked honesty from the first to last page. . . . Stunning . . . essential reading.
Library Journal (starred review)

It's hard to imagine this electrifying book being more personal, candid, or confessional. . . . In 88 short, lucid chapters, Gay powerfully takes readers through realities that pain her, vex her, guide her, and inform her work. The result is a generous and empathic consideration of what it's like to be someone else: in itself something of a miracle.
Booklist (starred review)

The book's short, sharp chapters come alive in vivid personal anecdotes. . . . And on nearly every page, Gay's raw, powerful prose plants a flag, facing down decades of shame and self-loathing by reclaiming the body she never should have had to lose.
Entertainment Weekly

Her spare prose, written with a raw grace, heightens the emotional resonance of her story, making each observation sharper, each revelation more riveting. . . . It is a thing of raw beauty.
USA Today

Bracingly vivid. . . . Remarkable. . . . Undestroyed, unruly, unfettered, Ms. Gay, live your life. We are all better for having you do so in the same ferociously honest fashion that you have written this book.
Los Angeles Times

Unforgettable. . . . Breathtaking. . . . We all need to hear what Gay has to say in these pages. . . . Gay says hers is not a success story because it's not the weight-loss story our culture demands, but her breaking of her own silence, her movement from shame and self-loathing toward honoring and forgiving and caring for herself, is in itself a profound victory.
San Francisco Chronicle

Hunger is Gay at her most lacerating and probing. . . . Anyone familiar with Gay's books or tweets knows she also wields a dagger-sharp wit.
Boston Globe

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It turns out that when a wrenching past is confronted with wisdom and bravery, the outcome can be compassion and enlightenment-both for the reader who has lived through this kind of unimaginable pain and for the reader who knows nothing of it. Roxane Gay shows us how to be decent to ourselves, and decent to one another.

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Aunts et Uncles - Caribbean Plant Based Food and Apparel

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Aunts et Uncles - Caribbean Plant Based Food and Apparel

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Plant-based cafe, bar, concept shoppe located in Flatbush, Brooklyn

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A great overview you can watch with kids

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Watch Kevin Hart's Guide to Black History | Netflix Official Site

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Kevin Hart highlights the fascinating contributions of Black history's unsung heroes in this entertaining - and educational - comedy special. Watch trailers & learn more.

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Coffee Dojo is a show about the intersection of leadership, culture, and creativity and bold outliers who are disrupting business as usual. Host Keba Konte, founder of Red Bay Coffee and renowned artist and food entrepreneur, sits down with thought leaders and creatives from around the world and around the block.

Every week, listeners can get their "coffee dojo fix" three times a week, as we release each episode in three acts, Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays.

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Red Bay Coffee - Beautiful Coffee To The People

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Coffee Dojo is a show about the intersection of leadership, culture, and creativity and bold outliers who are disrupting business as usual. Host Keba Konte, founder of Red Bay Coffee and renowned artist and food entrepreneur, sits down with thought leaders and creatives from around the world and around the block.

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This concert is presented by the Brooklyn Public Library as part of its Classical Interludes series.
From the Brooklyn Public Library: We are very excited to have you back at our events and would like to remind you that we are still in the midst of the pandemic. Please be considerate of your fellow guests and stay home if you're feeling unwell. Also, consider wearing a mask when attending indoor BPL Presents events. You'll be doing your part to help keep yourself and everyone healthy and safe.

PROGRAM
Valerie Coleman Tania León Frederick Tillis Spiritual Fantasy No. 12
INTERMISSION
George Walker String Quartet No. 1

FEATURING
Ashley Horne, Violin
Claire Chan, Violin
William Frampton, Viola
Wayne Smith, Cello

TICKETS
This concert is FREE and open to the public.
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Black History Month Concert at the Brooklyn Public Library - The Harlem Chamber Players

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Join us for this presentation and discussion "What and Why We Celebrate Black History Month?" In this virtual class session we will be discussing the history of Black History Month and why it is important.
If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated. ~Carter G. Woodson
Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time for recognizing their central role in U.S. history. The observance of Black History Month grew out of "Negro History Week," the brainchild of noted historian Dr. Carter G. Woodson. Since 1976, every U.S. president has officially designated the month of February as Black History Month. Today, other countries around the world also devote a month to celebrating Black history.
THE PRESENTATION
There are plenty of details that are often overlooked that can help us better understand "Black History Month." It did not happen overnight. In this special presentation we will cover information including:

Who is Dr. Carter G. Woodson?

Why is February Black History Month?

How did "Negro History Week" become "Black History Month?"

How do we observe Black History Month?

What other countries celebrate Black History Month?

This online experience is very interactive and includes:

2 pop quizzes

Little known facts

Important points of discussion

COST
**The price of this event? You choose what it's worth to you. We are using the honor system for this online screening, so you are able to pay what you would like - $5, $10 or $100 it is totally up to you.
ONLINE VIEWING
The presentation will take place online using the ZOOM platform.

Once you have purchased your ticket, you will be sent an email with a link to the event.

**On the day of the event you will be emailed a reminder with the time date and private link.

After the presentation is completed, we will host a live Q&A session with the owners of Melaneyes Media Aundar Ma'at and Born Logic Allah, where you will have the opportunity to ask questions and post comments.

For inquiries and sponsorship opportunities, email us at:

melaneyes3@gmail.com

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What is The WISE Fund?

The WISE Fund supports African-descent, Indigenous, women of color technologists with promising ecohealth solutions to climate change that also advance social and economic well-being of disadvantaged communities in Africa, Australia, Brazil, India and the United States." Meet the 2020 WISE Innovators"

Ecohealth recognizes that changes in the Earth's ecosystems directly affect the economic, physical and social well-being of people. Environmental problems need integrated solutions that address all impacts of declining or toxic natural resources. The WISE Fund supports women-led technology to power ecohealth worldwide.

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The WISE Fund supports African-descent, Indigenous, women of color technologists with promising ecohealth solutions to climate change that also advance social and economic well-being of disadvantaged communities in Africa, Australia, Brazil, India and the United States." Meet the 2020 WISE Innovators " Ecohealth recognizes that changes in the Earth's ecosystems directly affect the economic, physical and social well-being of people.

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We build pathways for Black girls and girls of color to embrace computer programming as creators and innovators by creating culturally responsive curriculum to incite interest in computer science and technology careers.

All guardians must create an account via our Community Portal before signing up for our programs. Once an account is created, guardians will have access to all our programs and activities for students 7 to 17. Click the links to the right for super easy sign up for our summer camps.

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Black girls all over the world are changing the face of technology. We are training thousands of girls to lead, innovate and create in science, tech, engineering and math.