CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH
A Word From Nate: The Founder of Black History Month
In honor of Black History Month I want to share this article with you, from Dr. Maulana Karenga, founder of Kwanzaa. Dr. Karenga is an outstanding scholar who is dedicated to the empowerment and uplifting of African People world-wide. I want to thank my friend, Paul Carey, a Teacher, and Social Activist, for providing me with Dr. Karenga’s article. Celebrate Black History Month by digging deeper, extending wider and loving more passionately. True peace will come when we give up all hope of a brighter past! Forward ever! Backward never!
Blessings!
Nate Gadsden
Author, Motivational Speaker, Poet
WALKING WITH WOODSON IN HISTORY:
SEEKING TRUTH, JUSTICE AND TRANSFORMATION
Los Angeles Sentinel, 02-06-14, p.A-6
We owe this month of meditation, celebration and recommitment to increased study of our history to Dr. Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950), the founder of Black History Month, who rose up from the evil and debilitating depths of post-Holocaust segregation and suppression to point to a new way to understand and assert ourselves in history and the world. An activist-scholar, he embraced the African concept that possessing knowledge carries with it an ethical obligation to share it and use it in the advancement of good in the world. Thus, he spent his life teaching and institution-building to share his knowledge, empower his people and contribute to the reconception and reconstruction of history and society in the interest of truth, justice and social transformation.
Woodson wanted us to understand our-selves in expansive ways, to conceive of African history as central to U.S. history and the history of the world, a window and way to understand and assert ourselves from a unique and fruitful vantage point. Furthermore, Woodson, like DuBois, Bethune and other ed-ucators and leaders of that era, believed that White folks were essentially racist because of ignorance about Black people and illusions of superiority about themselves. He believed that exposing them to a massive dose of the mind-opening evidence of history could free them from such unawareness and inanities and make us and the world safer and freer in the process.
Woodson, who earned his Ph.D. in histo-ry from Harvard University (1912), was...click here to download and read full article.
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A Word From Nate: The Founder of Black History Month
In honor of Black History Month I want to share this article with you, from Dr. Maulana Karenga, founder of Kwanzaa. Dr. Karenga is an outstanding scholar who is dedicated to the empowerment and uplifting of African People world-wide. I want to thank my friend, Paul Carey, a Teacher, and Social Activist, for providing me with Dr. Karenga’s article. Celebrate Black History Month by digging deeper, extending wider and loving more passionately. True peace will come when we give up all hope of a brighter past! Forward ever! Backward never!
Blessings!
Nate Gadsden
Author, Motivational Speaker, Poet
WALKING WITH WOODSON IN HISTORY:
SEEKING TRUTH, JUSTICE AND TRANSFORMATION
Los Angeles Sentinel, 02-06-14, p.A-6
We owe this month of meditation, celebration and recommitment to increased study of our history to Dr. Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950), the founder of Black History Month, who rose up from the evil and debilitating depths of post-Holocaust segregation and suppression to point to a new way to understand and assert ourselves in history and the world. An activist-scholar, he embraced the African concept that possessing knowledge carries with it an ethical obligation to share it and use it in the advancement of good in the world. Thus, he spent his life teaching and institution-building to share his knowledge, empower his people and contribute to the reconception and reconstruction of history and society in the interest of truth, justice and social transformation.
Woodson wanted us to understand our-selves in expansive ways, to conceive of African history as central to U.S. history and the history of the world, a window and way to understand and assert ourselves from a unique and fruitful vantage point. Furthermore, Woodson, like DuBois, Bethune and other ed-ucators and leaders of that era, believed that White folks were essentially racist because of ignorance about Black people and illusions of superiority about themselves. He believed that exposing them to a massive dose of the mind-opening evidence of history could free them from such unawareness and inanities and make us and the world safer and freer in the process.
Woodson, who earned his Ph.D. in histo-ry from Harvard University (1912), was...click here to download and read full article.
