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May 31, 2021 will be the one-hundredth anniversary of the two-day massacre in Tulsa’s wealthy black community known as Deep Greenwood or Black Wall Street. Deep Greenwood...

Vivien Thomas was a carpenter and high school graduate in 1929 who saved his money to go to medical school. The 1929 Stock Market crash caused his bank to fail, it closed,...

In 1848, Ellen and William Craft devised an unusual and successful plan to escape slavery in the deep South of Macon, Georgia. Within eight days after devising the plan,...

Lisa Charles is a woman who has an affinity for life and fitness.  She understands that life’s journey is not a straight line but a fortuitous maze of twists and turns. ...

“A race no less than a nation is prosperous in proportion to the intelligence of its women.” Monroe Alpheus Majors, M.D. (1893) YAAHA celebrates the thousands of exceptional...

One of the criticisms made about black history is that it is not well integrated into the American history books in classrooms. On this last day of Black History Month,...

Two years ago, YAAHA shared the video success story of Victor Young, a Lamborghini merchant, and media mogul, to an after-school tutoring program for children at risk. The...

Black inventors made countless contributions that made America great. Simple everyday practical innovations such as the mop, dustpan, fountain pen, pencil sharpener,...

Black history is American history and should represent blacks’ contributions in every American history book milestone.  It is especially paramount that our children are...