(WAVY) – For Black History Month, which is observed ... in the U.S. of its kind and named in tribute of American Patriot ...

Explore the history of Memorial Day and the African American contributions to the holiday. Learn about the true purpose and ...

a professor of African American history at Western Michigan University and the author of “First Martyr of Liberty: Crispus Attucks in American Memory.” That approach paid off. Most of the soldiers ...

The Attucks Theatre on Church Street ... birthday Saturday in Norfolk “It was named in honor of Crispus Attucks, who was part Native American and part African American, and was the first to ...

Event proceeds benefit Crispus Attucks Community Center ... presentation that touched on Juneteenth and local African-American history, including the Underground Railroad.

Another thing: While African American history and culture is rarely ... and New York recognize the day. March 5 marks “Crispus Attucks Day,” a holiday to remember Crispus Attucks, a Black ...

1750: 61% of all British North American slaves -- nearly 145,000 -- live in Virginia and Maryland, working the tobacco fields. 1770: Crispus Attucks is killed in the Boston Massacre. 1775 ...

In other words, slavery was primarily about us, right, from Crispus Attucks and Phillis Wheatley ... of what we might think of as African-American exceptionalism. (In other words, if it’s ...