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A Girl like Me is a 2005 documentary by Kiri Davis. The seven-minute documentary examines such things as the importance of color, hair and facial features for young African American women. It won the Diversity Award at the 6th Annual Media That Matters film festival in New York City, and has received coverage on various American media sources ...
In 1926, Black historian Carter G. Woodson set out to designate a week in February for the celebration, education, and commemoration of African American history. A child born that year would be 98 ...
Zee was born Ginger Renee Zuidgeest on January 13, 1981, in Orange, California, the daughter of Dawn Zuidgeest-Craft and Robert Zuidgeest. [3] [4] The family moved to Michigan before she was 1 year old. [3] Zee was named after "Ginger" from Gilligan's Island by her Dutch father, due to his love of the show.
Linsey Davis is an American broadcast journalist at ABC News, who currently anchors the Sunday edition of World News Tonight the network's weekday prime-time streaming program, ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis, and she is also a substitute anchor for Good Morning America, the weekday and Saturday edition of ABC World News Tonight.
Bianna Vitalievna Golodryga ( Russian: Бианна Витальевна Голодрыга; Romanian: Bianna Vitaliïvna Golodrîga; born June 15, 1978) is a Moldovan -born American news anchor and journalist. She currently co-anchors with Zain Asher the CNN global news show, One World with Zain and Bianna, airing weekdays. She previously ...
W. E. B. Du Bois Portrait by James E. Purdy, 1907 Born William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-02-23) February 23, 1868 Great Barrington, Massachusetts, U.S. Died August 27, 1963 (1963-08-27) (aged 95) Accra, Ghana Citizenship United States Ghana (from 1961) Education Fisk University (BA) Harvard University (AB, PhD) Friedrich Wilhelm University Known for The Souls of Black Folk (1903) Black ...
Pickaninny. Pickaninny (also picaninny, piccaninny or pickininnie) is a pidgin word for a small child, possibly derived from the Portuguese pequenino ('boy, child, very small, tiny'). [1] It has been used as a racial slur for African American children and a pejorative term for Aboriginal children of the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand.
Hoda Kotb (/ ˈ h oʊ d ə ˈ k ɒ t b iː / HOH-də KOT-bee; Egyptian Arabic: هدى قطب, Hudā Quṭb; Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [ˈhodæ ˈʔotˤb]; born August 9, 1964) is an American broadcast journalist, television personality, and author. She is a main co-anchor of the NBC News morning show Today and co-host of its entertainment ...