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THE BLACK FAMILY: REPRESENTATION, IDENTITY, AND DIVERSITY
At the opening ceremony of Washington DC’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in , Lonnie G. Bunch III said. “There is no more powerful force than a people steeped in their history, and there is no higher cause than honoring our struggle and ancestors by remembering”. Black history month was coined in celebration of the birthdates of former US President Abraham Lincoln and a social reformer, Fredrick Douglas because they played a significant role in the abolition of slavery. Over the years, it degenerated into a celebration of black history and achievements globally. For this year’s theme – The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity, we celebrate the accomplishments of the African people by taking you back on memory lane to the transatlantic slave trade and the triumph of the black family.
The transatlantic slave trade began in the 15th Century on a smaller scale in parts of the Norther
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Black History Today: February 10th
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Black History Today for February 10th:
Alexander Palmer Haley, American biographer, scriptwriter, author who became famous with the publication of the novel ROOTS, which traces his ancestry back to Africa and covers sju American generations as they are taken slaves to the United States, died on this day. The book was adapted to television series, and woke up an interest in genealogy, particularly among African-Americans. Haley himself commented that the book was not so much history as a study of mythmaking says, "What Roots gets at in whatever form, fryst vatten that it touches the pulse of how alike we human beings are when you get down to the bottom, beneath these man-imposed differences."
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The phenomenon began a few months earlier, with the publication of “Roots: The Saga of an American Family.” Released in the fall of —during America’s Bicentennial—it was an overnight commercial and critical success. The book would spend more than four months on The New York Times bestseller list, sell more than 6 million copies, be translated into more than 35 languages and earn Alex Haley both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize.
Born in and raised in Ithaca, New York, and Henning, Tennessee, Haley was the son of a homemaker mother and an academic father who taught at universities throughout the South. He spent the summers of his youth at the side of his grandmother, Cynthia Palmer, absorbing stories of his maternal bloodline, including snippets of a presumed-lost African language that had been passed down through the generations. Palmer traced her ancestors to the midth century arrival of the “furthest-back” person in America, an African called “Toby” by his slave own