Dr. Maulana Karenga created Kwanzaa in an effort to connect the broken threads linking black America to a Pan-African cultural heritage. Part of that heritage was the tradition of handmade crafts and community celebrations. Homemade Kwanzaa swags can be made with any combination of materials that symbolize the food, culture and traditions of the African experience.

A Poem about the Tuskegee Airmen.

Race should play no role in how one is “supposed” to act.

Walter Tull was one of the first professional black footballers and the first black officer in the British army. One of Britain’s forgotten heroes, his life story is now coming out of obscurity and he is beginning to gain the recognition he deserves for his contributions to black, football and military history.

Recent evidence has come to light that reveals that a man by the name of Andrew Watson was the world’s first black football player. Starting his career in 1874, he was successful at all levels of the game and set the path for those that would follow him.

It’s amazing to think how far we’ve come as a culture in the past fifty years. So much has happened to form today’s free American society.

How black males, especially young black males are treated in our great nation.

Bruce Bird sold his house to open a Museum to honor the long-ignored African Americans who served in WW11. Bird hopes a famous black American will find and sponsor the museum that takes donations to stay afloat. The non profit organization raises money a little at a time and often runs short.

U.S slavery is not being discussed enough in American schools.

If asked my ethnicity, I’d always say that I am black, and I love being black and there is nothing offensive or degrading in the term “Black People“ or “Black Person.”