by Sobers-OutlawGill | Sep 30, 2010 | African American History, Places
The Desire Housing Project was a Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) managed project located in the city’s largely African American Desire neighborhood, part of the Upper Ninth Ward. Authorized by the Housing Act of 1949, construction of the Desire project began...
by BlockerRick | Sep 30, 2010 | Global African History, Perspectives
In the account below Nova Scotian historian Sharon Robart-Johnson describes the research and writing that culminated in her book, African’s Children: A History of Blacks in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Her book, the first history of Afro-Canadians in Nova Scotia,...
by GiffinSusan | Sep 30, 2010 | Global African History, People
Dennis Brutus was a South African poet, organizer, and activist perhaps most notable for his use of sports as a weapon against apartheid. Dennis Vincent Brutus was born to South African parents of French, Italian and African descent in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia...
by GiffinSusan | Sep 30, 2010 | African American History, People
Pulitzer-prize-winning author Alex Haley was best known for his historical work, including the widely acclaimed Roots. Alexander Palmer Haley was born in Ithaca, New York, on August 11, 1921. He soon moved with his mother to Henning, Tennessee, while his father...
by PowerDesmond | Sep 30, 2010 | African American History, People
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and educator Yusef Komunyakaa was born James Willie Brown, Jr., in 1947 in Bogalusa, Louisiana, a segregated mill town. Although Komunyakaa described Bogalusa as “culturally desolate,” he loved to read and discovered poetry in elementary...
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