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African American Heritage Week: William Wells Brown
EnglishMajorLeagues
This week, I'm dedicating my posts to African American heritage, and I'll be highlighting some of the figures from American history that you may not have heard of. The first of these figures is the controversial novelist, William Wells Brown. Brown was born into slavery in either 1814 or 1815, to a Kentucky-based slave named Elizabeth and George W. Higgins, a white planter. His father did ... ...more
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The Importance of HBCUs in African American Heritage
Kelli Dolan
In honor of Black History Month and this week’s African American Heritage contest, I wanted to talk a little bit about HBCUs because of their social and cultural importance to higher education. HBCUs stands for Historically Black Colleges and Universities; they’re schools that opened with the intention of educating Black Americans when segregation kept them from attending other colleges back ... ...more
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Book Recommendations: For African American Heritage Week
African American stories are so important in the world of literature and publishing, especially since white characters have dominated the space basically since mass publishing first took off. In a time of racial prejudice and segregation, few Black authors ever got book deals and authors of other races and nationalities rarely wrote Black characters. While the issue hasn’t totally been ... ...more
