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Come to the Art opening of "Threads: Weaving Connections of African Life and Cultures," a show curated by the students i...
03/22/2024

Come to the Art opening of "Threads: Weaving Connections of African Life and Cultures," a show curated by the students in ARTH 4900/5900.

The show itself will be up in the Dorothy Uber Bryan gallery in BGSU's School of Art April 3-5.

The opening reception will be April 3 from 5-7pm, featuring kora music (Senegalese harp) by Mady Kouyate. The glass cases in the lobby of the gallery are already curated and will give you a preview to some aspects of the show, though the show will focus more fully on African textiles while the glass cases have more wood and metal art.

04/22/2022

TODAY IN AFRICANA HISTORY: April 21:
• 1943—Nigerian novelist, playwright, critic, Kole Omotoso, was born Akure Nigeria. He wrote from a Yoruba perspective and incorporated Yoruba folklore.
•1974—American Lee Elder is 1st AfricanAmerican professional golfer to qualify for the Masters Tournament.
•1997—Kenyan Lamuck Aguta wins 101st Boston Marathon

04/08/2022

OF INTEREST: History has been made! The first Black woman will be sitting on the US Supreme Court. The honorable Ketanji Brown Jackson has been confirmed as the next Supreme Court Justice.

03/14/2022

AFRICANA HISTORY: March 12
•1773 — Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable founded the settlement now known as Chicago, IL. Originally from Haiti, he moved to the US, married Kittihawa, a Potawatomi woman, & set up a trading post at the mouth of the Chicago River, which grew into the city we know today.

03/11/2022

TODAY IN AFRICANA HISTORY: March 11:
•1789—Benjamin Banneker with L'Enfant began to lay out Washington in the District of Columbia
•1959—“Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry became 1st play performed on Broadway written by an AfricanAmerican woman. Sidney Poitier & Claudia McNeil starred.

03/10/2022

TODAY IN AFRICANA HISTORY: March 10:
•1845—Hallie Quinn Brown, orator, activist, educator, born a free Black woman. One of 1st Black women to graduate from Wilberforce U (1873). She graduated from Chautauqua Lecture School (1886). Wilberforce awarded her honorary MA (1890) & JD (1936).
•1913—Harriet Tubman died in Auburn NY. Born into slavery as Harriet Ross c.1819 in Maryland, Tubman, also known as “Back Moses,” was a conductor in Underground Railroad, helping possibly +300 people escape slavery, even after the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act made it illegal.

03/10/2022

TODAY IN AFRICANA HISTORY: March 9:
•1841—US Supreme Court ruled that the 39 survivors of the Amistad Mutiny (rebellion of 53 Sierra Leonians captured by Portuguese slave traders & being transported on the Spanish ship Amistad) be released. Private donation allowed the Africans’ return to Sierra Leone, January 1842.

03/09/2022

TODAY IN AFRICANA HISTORY: March 8:
•1945—Phyllis Mae Daley, the 1st of 4 AfricanAmerican Navy nurses to serve active duty in World War II, receives her commission as an ensign in the Navy Nurse Corps

03/07/2022

TODAY IN AFRICANA HISTORY: March 7:
•1965— Bloody Sunday. John Lewis led march from Selma to Montgomery AL, intended as peaceful protest for Voting Rights. Yet Police awaited them on the far side of Edmund Pettis Bridge, brutally stopping them.
•2016—Lieutenant Commander Paul Smith, from Jamaica, is 1st Black person to attain rank of Commander in Royal Canadian Navy’s 106-year history.

03/07/2022

AFRICANA HISTORY: March 6, 1957—Ghana became an independent state, ending British colonial rule.

02/15/2022

TODAY IN AFRICANA HISTORY: February 15:
•1804—New Jersey began to abolish slavery.
•1848—Sarah Roberts was barred from white school in Boston. Her father, Benjamin Roberts, filed 1st school integration lawsuit on her behalf.
•1851—Black abolitionists invaded Boston courtroom & rescued Shadrach Minkins, a fugitive slave.
•1964—Musician Louis Armstrong’s “Hello Dolly” becomes his 1st number one record.
•1968—Henry Lewis becomes 1st Black to lead symphony orchestra in the USA.
•2011—American poet & author, Maya Angelou, awarded the US Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.

02/14/2022

TODAY IN AFRICANA HISTORY: February 14:
•1817/18—Frederick Douglass (d.1895), who escaped from slavery in Maryland to become an abolitionist, social reformer, orator, writer, statesman, known as "The Great Emancipator," born on or about this date, Talbot County MD.
•1829—Solomon G. Brown (d. 6/26/1906), born. The son of former enslaved parents, himself born a free man, this poet, lecturer, & scientific technician was 1st Black employee of the Smithsonian Institution (1852), working there 54 years, until retiring in 1906.
•1867— Morehouse College, a historically black men’s liberal arts college, founded in Atlanta GA.

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