by kenycm | Oct 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
After Atlanta rose from the ashes of the Civil War, many formerly enslaved women migrated to Atlanta, seeking opportunities beyond sharecropping. By 1880, 98% of Atlanta’s Black women were domestic workers in the homes of former enslavers. Being a laundress was at the...
by kenycm | Oct 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
It is well known that Albert Einstein was a pacifist. Did you also know that he did not support discrimination and supported African Americans? This photograph was taken in 1946 at Lincoln University, where Einstein was invited to do a physics lecture and answer any...
by kenycm | Oct 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
William Taylor is our resident award-winning poet who creates poems for our educational materials and website. The poem, Memories, was written about the passing of his beloved grandmother and what she meant to him growing up. The poem will be in the beginning of our...
by kenycm | Oct 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
William Taylor, our resident award-winning poet, is expanding YAAHA’s interactive teaching abilities by creating original poems that coincide with the teachings featured in The Chronicle of Heroes, Black Contributions to America, and on our website. His most...
by kenycm | Sep 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
“Black Wall Street” often conjures images of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, where African American dreams took root in the early 1900s. Yet, the power of Black enterprise was not confined to one place. Across the United States, vibrant Black communities...
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