Regarding “Django Unchained.” OK, so what we have here is another movie-version history of the Black American experience, written by someone not Black. Most of the books about our history—in spite of more than 42 years of African American studies programs and departments—are still written and published by non-Blacks. That may not be a comfortable fact, but fact it is.

Since Dec. 13, 1997, the mission of the African American Firefighter Museum (AAFFM) has been to collect, conserve and share the heritage of pioneering African Americans in the fire service.

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—The Los Angeles City Council voted to make the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company office building the city’s newest historic-cultural monument.

The building at the corner of Adams Boulevard and Western Avenue was built in 1949 by famed architect Paul Williams in the Late Modern style.

Williams was the first Black certified architect west of the Mississippi River and served on the city’s first Planning Commission in 1920.

Black history does not start with slavery, but it begins with the conception of mankind and transcends all of the world’s history. Although popular teachings reject the great accomplishments of African and African American people, researchers and historians have confirmed Black people are the foundation of civilizations throughout the world, including the Americas.

An enslaved African in Greece, he was and is known for his fables such as “The Tortoise and the Hare,” “The Boy Who Cried Wolf,” and “The Ant and the Grasshopper.” There are at least 656 short stories and fables Aesop told that have been recorded and are still being told to this very day. Many of his wise creations are called nursery rhymes. 

The storyteller is described as having had an oversized head, short in stature, and he wore a scraggly beard and did not appear to groom often.