Happy Independence Day, Dominican Republic! Today in 1844, after the Dominican War of Independence, this Caribbean country became independent from Haiti. Let’s celebrate the ethnic diversity of the country by examining the country’s fused culture, which is filled with Taino, African, and European influences.
Happy Independence Day, St. Lucia! On February 22nd, 1979, this Caribbean country gained independence from Great Britain.
On this #InternationalMotherLanguageDay, we focus on the language that used in the highly popular 2018 Black Panther that is an official language of South Africa.
Today we celebrate International Mother Tongue Day. This international holiday was established to celebrate and foster multilingualism for inclusion in education and society.
On February 5th, 2021, FunTimes Magazine celebrated Black History Month by hosting the virtual event ‘Generations of History’.
In the summer of 1953, after moving closer to Langley, Katherine Goble began her career with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics West Area Computing unit. The group was composed of entirely African American women who manually performed complex mathematical equations, as NACA was still segregated.
In 1797, Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Baumfree in Ulster County, New York. Later in life, after becoming a free woman, she became an advocate for the abolition of slavery and the advancement of women’s rights.
This year’s Martin Luther King Day, we want to highlight some lesser-known facts of the honorable civil rights leader.
Daniel Hale Williams was one of the first physicians to perform open-heart surgery in the United States and founded a hospital with an interracial staff, making him a surgical pioneer that would influence the field of modern medicine.
Dubbed The Father of South African Jazz, Hugh Masekela’s successful career started from humble beginnings and took him across international stages.
