by KC Washington | Apr 10, 2019 | African American History, People in African American History
Marsha P. Johnson was an African American drag performer and social activist. The fifth of seven children, she was born Malcolm Michaels Jr. to Malcolm Michaels Sr. and Alberta (Claiborne) Michaels on August 24, 1945 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. During a tempestuous...
by Robert Fikes | Oct 27, 2016 | African American History, Perspectives in African American History
In the 1971 Woody Allen film, “Bananas,” a fellow employee asks Allen’s character, “What would you have been if you finished school?” Allen’s character answers, “I was in the black studies program. By now I could have been black.” Allen’s attempted humorous jab at...
by Daphne Barbee-Wooten | Feb 16, 2025 | African American History, In Defense of...
In January 2025, Daphne Barbee-Wooten, a Hawaii historian and social activist attorney wrote the article below describing the campaign to make the Aloha State recognize the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King as a state holiday. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth...
