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In the game of golf there is also a history timeline filled with events that were chronicled and have a place in history. Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA.

Black Achievements in the Game of Golf

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Dr. Carter G. Woodson conceived the idea of “Negro History Week” in 1926 and worked long and hard over the years to see...

The Association for the Study of African LIfe and History (ASALH) kicked off the first of a year long commemoration of the “Forced migration of Africans to the Virginia Colony in 1619.” Panel members, Moderator, ASALH’s National President and Chair of the History Department at Harvard University Dr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham; Director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund of the National Trust for Historic Preservation Brent Leggs; Spencer Crew, professor of US History at George Mason University; ASALH 400th Commemorative Chair and professor at John Jay College Gloria Browne-Marshall and Senior Associate Dean and Research Professor of Law at George Washington Law School Roger A. Fairfax. (Photos by Rob Roberts)

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ASALH Recognizes 400 Years of Perseverance

THE AFRO — ASALH was founded in 1915 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson.

As a young enslaved boy in Baltimore, Frederick Douglass bartered pieces of bread for lessons in literacy. His teachers were white neighborhood kids, who could read and write but had no food.

Black History8 years ago

The critical role of education in the history of African Americans, Part l

THE WEEKLY CHALLENGER — In many urban neighborhood public schools, there is a lack of resources, endured overcrowding, a significant racial achievement gap and policies that...

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