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Black HIstory Month

Black History Month.

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Black History Month Articles

  • How to Teach Children About Black History Month

    Instructions Step 1: Show students a picture of Dr. Woodson and read his biography to the class. Have students work in groups to identify Dr. Woodson's significant accomplishments. Students can place the accomplishments on a timeline. Step 2: Allow students to access the Internet and peruse the ASALH website. Ask students to click on "About ASALH." Instruct students to read about the... more.

  • How to Celebrate Black Inventors During Black History Month

    Instructions Step 1: Fix yourself a delicious peanut butter and jelly sandwich. While it may be difficult to separate the legend from the truth, George Washington Carver's pioneering work in the field of agriculture lead the to invention of nearly three hundred unique recipes. Carver was born a slave and was denied educational opportunities until he was 30. Step 2: Celebrate the... more.

  • About Famous Black TV Families

    About Famous Black TV Families

    Instructions History Step 1: Pianist and singer Hazel Scott in 1950 and singer Nat King Cole in 1956 are noted as being the first African-Americans to have TV shows. It was not until the show "Julia" aired in 1968 that black family life was the subject of a weekly series. This focused on the life of the widowed, single mother, and nurse Julia Baker and broke many of the stereotypes... more.


  • Is it time to end Black History Month?

    Since the election of President Barack Obama, the Internet and Blogosphere have been awash with discussions about the future of racially based events and observances such as black history month. In response, the African American Student Association of Wichita State University and Campus Progress will host a public forum to pose and discuss the question; "Is it time to end Black History month?... more.



Definition

Black History Month

Overview of noun black

The noun black has 7 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (4) black, blackness, inkiness -- (the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white))
2. total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, black -- (total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night")
3. Black, Joseph Black -- (British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799))
4. Black, Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Temple -- (popular child actress of the 1930|s (born in 1928))
5. Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid -- (a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa))
6. black -- ((board games) the darker pieces)
7. black -- (black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black")

Overview of verb black

The verb black has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)

1. blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black -- (make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened")

Overview of adj black

The adj black has 15 senses (first 8 from tagged texts)

1. (56) black -- (being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil")
2. (4) black -- (of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr.)
3. (4) black -- (marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words")
4. (3) black, dark, sinister -- (stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy)
5. (2) black, bleak, dim -- (offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things")
6. (2) black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful -- ((of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error")
7. (1) black, blackened -- ((of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury")
8. (1) black, pitch-black, pitch-dark -- (extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar")
9. black, grim, mordant -- (harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit")
10. black -- ((of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda")
11. bootleg, black, black-market, contraband, smuggled -- (distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes")
12. black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful -- ((used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice")
13. black -- ((of coffee) without cream or sugar)
14. black -- (dressed in black; "a black knight"; "black friars")
15. black, smutty -- (soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour")

Overview of noun history

The noun history has 5 senses (first 5 from tagged texts)

1. (379) history -- (the aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the school|s history")
2. (110) history -- (the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future; "all of human history")
3. (81) history, account, chronicle, story -- (a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead")
4. (70) history -- (the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view")
5. (16) history -- (all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge; "the dawn of recorded history"; "from the beginning of history")
Overview of noun month

The noun month has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)

1. (70) calendar month, month -- (one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year; "he paid the bill last month")
2. (37) month -- (a time unit of approximately 30 days; "he was given a month to pay the bill")
Translations
  • English: Black History Month
  • Spanish: Negro Mes de la Historia
  • French: Black History Month
  • German: Black History Month
  • Italian: Black History Month
  • Japanese: 黒人歴史月間
  • Chinese: 黑人历史月
  • Russian: Black History Month
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