Posts tagged African American
1921-Black Wall Street – Unknown History
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Greenwood is a neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As one of the most successful and wealthiest African American communities in the United States during the early 20th Century, it was popularly known as America’s “Black Wall Street”.
Read MoreAnais
Nationality: American Place of birth: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Anais (birth name Anais Martinez) She won a Casandra Award (which is the Dominican version of the Grammy’s) for “Most Outstanding Artist Located In Another Country”. She attended The Door academy in New York where study dance and singing with Juanita Williams, who is a gospel and jazz […]
Read MoreSuperficial Diversity
Mark Shriver briefly discusses his research efforts in the Department of Anthropology at Penn State University. Mr. Shriver Quote: “I had the result for two or three years before I even looked up the ID number of the person whom we tested. I looked at who it was and it was me! I checked myself and […]
Read MoreForgotten Inventors
Continue: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/sfeature/index.html Tonee Ndungu is a media consultant with a specialty in New and Rich Media Tools and Applications. He is the founder of the Wazimba Youth Foundation, which is an African youth IT outreach organization that educates and emphasizes the use of Internet-based media tools and social networks among teens in Africa. He is a […]
Read MoreSouth African Royalty: Tsidii Le Loka
Tsidii Le Loka was studying economics and music at the University of Massachusetts when she got a call to come to New York and audition for “The Lion King.” Not only did she get the part of Rafiki, but she went on to receive a Tony nomination for her work. It was a defining […]
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