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Introducing Harriet & Roxanne™
YAAHA is excited to bring the characters, Harriet and Roxanne, to our audiences, as Talking History with Harriet & Roxanne.™ We have discovered that the versatile comic...
Dr. Gary Thompson
Dr. Gary Thompson is a clinical psychologist who abhors the national spotlight. His wife, Dr. Frances Thompson, and he have six bi-racial daughters; his extended family...
How Should We Teach Black History?
YAAHA believes black history should be taught with facts without changing the narrative or definitions and should be presented truthfully, warts and all. The 1619 Project...
Dr. Carol Swain
Dr. Carol Swain believes that where you start in life is not where you need to end up. This remarkable woman was born poor in Virginia in 1954. She was an eighth-grade...
Benjamin Banneker, the Only Black Man to Challenge Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Banneker was the eldest child of a free black couple who owned a tobacco farm in Baltimore County, Maryland. Banneker was a gifted self-taught mathematician,...
Making a STEM Career a Possibility
We know that our nation’s talent and creativity are lost when we do not encourage young girls to explore the possibilities of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering,...
Why Teach Black History?
One of the criticisms made about black history is that it is not integrated into the American history books. Sadly, our students, black and white, have little knowledge...
Robert Smalls (1839-1915)
One of the most intriguing stories of the Civil War is that of Robert Smalls, a slave and Civil War hero. The Confederacy employed him as a stevedore foreman, lamplighter,...
Why We Do Not Support CRT
The cynical political game of Critical Race Theory (CRT) relies heavily on the public's ignorance of history to achieve racial division and promote the theory that "systemic...
YAAHA is dedicated to encouraging stories about Black history, proving that Black history is American history. We challenge the status quo about what people think they know about Black history.
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