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Opportunity Center of Owensboro/A Daviess County nonprofit that offers job training, support services and social activities for adults with developmental disabilities is seeing an uptick in volunteers as the pandemic has eased. -
Kentucky Museum/An exhibit at the Kentucky Museum on the campus of Western Kentucky University spotlights a woman entrepreneur who was highly successful in the fashion business more than 100 years ago.
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Georgia, Bessie Jones is the conduit of Traditional Black expression. Her life of teaching, service and singing lead her to be the lead singer of the Georgia Sea Island singer who dazzled audiences with the sound of the Gullah traditions. -
Black History Month, also known as African American History Month was the brainchild of Carter G. Woodson an author, journalist, and historian, in 1925.
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Ebony Marshman has an exhibition coming up called The Interludes: An Installation of Inner[re]visions from February 11, 2022 to March 27, 2022
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The Caney-Fork Rosenwald School in Allen County was established by the investment of Julius Rosenwald, a philanthropist, the president of Sears, Roebuck, and Company, and $1,500 in tax donations. Though the history of the grounds begins well before the Rosenwald school fund and its inception, however, both its humble beginnings and the creation of the school play significant roles in the value of the eight-acre location and black history of Allen County, Kentucky.
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A museum dedicated to telling the history of African-Americans in Bowling Green is trying to recover from a one-two punch of deadly storms, followed by a…
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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced its first round of funding recommendations for the 2022 fiscal year last week.There are 13…
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations in Bowling Green are going to look similar to last year because of the surging omicron variant, but the committee…
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In the first issue of the African American Folklorist printed and distributed the Black History month of 2020, I wrote an article called, “The Copper-Colored Races - Why aren’t Black Indians Part of Black History Month.” The thesis was, with the importance of the celebration founded by Carter G. Woodson, it seemed the same cast of characters were always being celebrated in recent decades, considering there is a group of black folk, that truly would be considered Black American, or even American Black that is rarely mentioned in the celebration of Black History Month. They are called “The Copper Colored People.”
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Houston native Langston Collin Wilkins, Ph.D. is a folklorist, ethnomusicologist, and writer.Currently, Wilkins serves as Washington State’s state…
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Since hooks' passing on December 15, social media has flooded with reflections on her public impact as an author and scholar. Here, her friends remember what she was like in private.
