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The Black Sash was founded on 19 May 1955 by six middle-class white women, Jean Sinclair, Ruth Foley, Elizabeth McLaren, Tertia Pybus, Jean Bosazza and Helen Newton-Thompson. [1] The organisation was founded as the Women’s Defence of the Constitution League but was eventually shortened by the press as the Black Sash due to the women's habit ...
Lagos Black Heritage Festival (LBHF) is an annual event in Lagos that also includes the Lagos Carnival. The festival is a feast of culture and history aimed to showcase the richness and diversity of the African heritage. LBHF celebrates African creativity with diverse performances such as traditional and contemporary dance, drama, music ...
The National Museum of African American History and Culture ( NMAAHC ), colloquially known as the Blacksonian, is a Smithsonian Institution museum located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in the United States. [4] It was established in 2003 and opened its permanent home in 2016 with a ceremony led by President Barack Obama .
Fatima Meer was born in the Grey Streets of Durban, South Africa, into a middle-class family of nine, where her father Moosa Ismail Meer, a newspaper editor of The Indian Views, [ 1] instilled in her a consciousness of the racial discrimination that existed in the country. Her mother was Rachel Farrell, the second wife of Moosa Ismail Meer.
Tafawa Balewa Tomb. Uli Beier Museum. National Museum of Colonial History, Aba. War Museum, Umuahia. Niger-Delta Museum. National Museum of Unity, Enugu. CRIMMD Museum Nigerian Photo History, Idimu, Lagos. National Museum of Unity, Ibadan. *Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art,Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos.
Dina Bennett. The National Museum of African American Music ( NMAAM) is a museum in Nashville, Tennessee. The museum showcases the musical genres inspired, created, or influenced by African-Americans. [1] Its location at Fifth + Broadway in Downtown Nashville, as opposed to historically-Black Jefferson Street, has been controversial.
Enslaved and free Black Americans living near the Atlantic Ocean caught oysters for food and prepared soul food meals from this food. During slavery, Thomas Downing was a free black man who lived in New York and was known as the "New York Oyster King." By 1825 he opened an oyster cellar, "Downing's Oyster House", on Broadway Street, in the city ...
N. National Commission for Museums and Monuments. National Museum of Unity, Ibadan. National War Museum, Umuahia.