Happy Kwanzaa!—the 6th Principle is Kuumba

The sixth principle of Kwanzaa is Kuumba (koo-OOM-bah) Creativity—to do always as much as we can, in the way that we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than when we inherited it.

"Art is timeless." —Toni Morrison

KIDS' Book of Wisdom: Quotes from the African American Tradition
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HAPPY KWANZAA—the 4th principle is UJAMAA

The fourth principle of Kwanzaa is Ujamaa (oo-JAH-mah) Cooperative Economics—to build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit together from them.

Learn more about cooperation in Kids' Book of Wisdom, http://justusbooksonlinestore.com

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So You Want to Write a Children's Book?

So You Want to Write a Children's Book? Get tips on the ABCs and 123s that will help you get started. Free workshop with Cheryl Willis Hudson, editorial director of Just Us Books, from 1-2 pm at the 1st Annual Westchester Multicultural Children's Book Festival. White Plains Public Library. Saturday, October 13th.

A panel discussion on the Importance and Impact of Multicultural Books, moderated by Wade Hudson (president, JUB) will follow from 2-3 pm. Panelists include Hannah Erlich (Lee & Low Books) Mark Weston, author Honda: The Boy Who Dreamed of Cars; and Torrey Maldonado, author, Secret Saturdays.

 

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 14th

September 14, 1921—Constance Baker Motley, first African American to be appointed as a federal judge, is born. 

http://www.answers.com/topic/constance-baker-motley

Read more about her amazing accomplishments in Book of black Heroes: Great Women in the Struggle, edited by Toyomi Igus, published by Just Us Books.

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 13th

September 12, 1885—Alain L. Locke, African-American writer, educator, philosopher and patron of the arts is born. A chief cultural architect of the Harlem Renaissance, he died in 1954.

September 13, 1881—Lewis Latimer patents an electric lamp with a carbon filament.

            

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 12th Mae Jemison

September 12, 1992— Mae C. Jemison becomes the first African-American woman to travel in space.

Read more about her in Book of Black Heroes:Great Women in the Struggle, published by Just Us Books, Inc.

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 11th

September 11, 1959—"Duke" Ellington won Spingarn Medal for his musical Achievements.

Read more about him in AFRO-BETS Book of Black Heroes from A to Z, coming from Just Us Books in October, 2012.

http://www.dukeellington.com/ 

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 10th

September 10, 1884—African-American Congressman John R. Lynch presides over the Republican National Convention.

Read more about the life and works of Congressman Lynch online at the African American Registry.
http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/john-r-lynch-black-congressman-magnolia-state

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 9th

September 9, 1915—Association for the Study of Negro Life and History is founded by Carter G Woodson. 

Read more about Dr. Woodson's life and work.http://www.asalh.org/woodsonbiosketch.html 

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 8th

September 8, 1981—Roy Wilkins, second Executive Director of NAACP, dies. He was one of the leading figures of the Civil Rights Movement.

http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&sa=X&biw=1280&bih=762&tbm=isch&prmd=imvnso&tbnid=zNnTtCah_DfE-M:&imgrefurl=http://www.mnhs.org/library/tips/history_topics/129wilkins.htm&docid=Zw4RUfWHspYwTM&imgurl=http://www.mnhs.org/library/tips/history_topics/images/129image.jpg&w=200&h=306&ei=pC9LULXKLqn00gHeyoD4CQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=509&vpy=122&dur=3307&hovh=244&hovw=160&tx=92&ty=231&sig=113303348124592596034&page=1&tbnh=130&tbnw=85&start=0&ndsp=28&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0,i:82

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 7th

September 7, 1954—Public schools in Washington, DC and Baltimore are integrated.

http://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2012/05/brown-v-board-of-education-getting-the-picture-one-year-later/ 

President Barack Obama--Cheers!

Look for this forthcoming title coming soon from Just Us Books!

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 6th

September 6, 1848—National Black Convention meets in Cleveland with some seventy delegates. Frederick Douglass was elected president of the convention.John Mercer Langston was also a key player in the convention.

Read more about John Mercer Langston

http://www.oberlin.edu/external/EOG/OYTT-images/JMLangston.html

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 5th

September 5, 1895—George Washington Murray is elected to Congress from South Carolina.

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TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY

September 4, 1908—Richard Wright, noted author of such classics as Native Son and Black Boy, is born.

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September 4, 1848—Lewis H Latimer, inventor and engineer, is born.

http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/ilives/latimer/latimer.html

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Sept. 3rd

September 3, 1838—Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a sailor.

Read more about him in AFRO-BETS Book of Black Heroes from A to Z, published by Just Us Books.

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY

September 2, 1766—Abolitionist, inventor, entrepreneur, James Forten is born in Philadelphia, PA.

http://www.projectblackman.com/GreatBlackMenInHistory.aspx?notablePersonId=46

September 1, 1867—Robert T. Freeman becomes the first Black to graduate from Harvard University Dental School.

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—August 31

August 31, 1935—Professional baseball player Frank Robinson is born in Beaumont, TX. He goes on to become the first black manager in major league baseball.

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—August 30

August 30, 1901—Roy Wilkins, 2nd Executive Director of NAACP, is born. 

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August 30, 1800—Gabriel Prosser's slave revolt in Virginia is discovered.

August 30, 1838—The first African American magazine, Mirror of Freedom, begins publication in New York City.

August 30, 1843—African Americans participate in a national political convention for the first time at the Liberty Party Convention held in Buffalo, NY. Samuel R. Ward leads the convention in prayer; Henry Highland Garnet is chosen as a member of the nominating committee; and Charles R. Ray is selected as  one of the convention's secretaries.

 

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—August 29th

August 29, 1979—Sheridan Broadcasting Corp purchases Mutual Black Network, making it the first completely Black owned radio network in the world.

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY

August 28, 1963—Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "I Have A Dream" speech at Lincoln Memorial during the March On Washington, 1963.

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY

August 27, 1963—W. E. B. DuBois, editor, author and civil rights leader, dies in Ghana, Africa.

His book, The Souls of Black Folk, published in 1903, is a classic in Black History and literature.

Today in Black History—Hale Woodruff

August 26, 1900—The celebrated painter Hale Woodruff is born in Cairo, IL  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hale_Woodruff 

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—Colored Nurses

                 

August 25,1908—National Association of Colored Nurses is founded.

http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/national-association-colored-graduate-nurses-founded

August 25, 1927—Althea Gibson, tennis champion, born in South Carolina.

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY—August 24, 1950 Edith Sampson, first Black delegate to United Nations appointed by President Harry S. Truman.

http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/edith-sampson-lawyer-judge-and-first-black-woman-named-un-delegate

Learn more about this extraordinary woman in Book of Black Heroes: Great Women in the Struggle, published by Just Us Books.

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY

August 23, 1900—National Negro Business League, founded.

http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/booker-t-washington-founds-national-business-league

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY

August 22, 1867—Fisk University incorporated. This historically Black institution of higher education, located in  Nashville, Tenn. opened in 1866.

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY

August 21, 1831—Nat Turner begins his slave revolt in Southampton County, VA.  Turner was captured and hanged but his revolt caused fear throughout the South. State legislatures passed new laws to reinforce the ones they had already enacted, prohibiting the education of slaves and free blacks, restricting rights of assembly and other civil rights for free blacks, and requiring white ministers to be present at black worship services.

August 21, 1904— Jazz great William “Count” Basie is born in Red Bank, NJ. Basie was one of the world’s most popular jazz band leaders.

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY

August 20, 1856—Wilberforce, an African-American institution of higher learning, is established in Ohio. It is the nation’s oldest private historically black institution.

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY

August 19, 1791—Benjamin Banneker, free African American scientist, astronomer, mathematician, surveyor and farmer, publishes his first almanac.  

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY

August 18, 1859—Our Nig by Harriett Wilson, the first novel written by an African American to be published, is released.

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY

August 17, 1887—Marcus Garvey, founder of the United Negro Improvement Association and the “Back to Africa Movement” of the 1920s, is born in Jamaica.

Read more about Marcus Garvey in the forthcoming revision of Book of Black Heroes from A to Z, published in fall 2012 by Just Us Books.

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY

August 16, 1887—Journalist and author Louis Lomax is born in Valdosta, GA. He was the first African-American television journalist.

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY

August 15, 1824—Freed African-American slaves establishes Liberia, an independent country in West Africa.

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY

August 14, 1883—Ernest Just, pioneering biologist is born in Charleston, SC.

Read more about his life and his research in Book of Black Heroes: Scientists, Healers and Inventors, published by Just Us Books.

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August 13, 1892—The Afro-American Newspaper, headquartered in Baltimore, MD, is founded.www.afro.com/

TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY

August 12, 1922—Cedar Hill, the home of Black abolitionist and leader Frederick Douglass in Washington, DC is dedicated as a National Memorial.