Hairstyles
This hairstyle represents a connection to Africa and the rejection of the West. A renewed sense of Pride in African characteristics and belief in keeping things natural
Locs
A struggle for justice and equality for African Americans that took place mainly in the 1950s and 1960s.
First Black man to play in Major League Baseball, playing for the Dodgers
Jackie Robinson
Created the First Beauty brand to cater to all skin tones and open the makeup industry to providing shades for black women of all skin tones
Rihanna
Things parents say when you get too friendly with them.
I'm not one of your little friends
This hairstyle was a sign of resistance in slaves, it was used as maps to escape from slavery and would be used to hide rice or seeds on their way to enslavement.
Cornrows
The golden age for African American artists, writers, and musicians. It gave these artists pride in and control over how the Black experience was represented in American culture and was the development of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City as a Black cultural mecca in the early 20th Century.
Harlem Renaissance
Became one of the first black women millionaires by inventing hair products and makeup for black women.
Madam C.J. Walker
This rap group helped to popularize and develop the East Coast hip hop and hardcore hip hop styles of New York City, U.S. They so pioneered a new type of record deal – they allowed the group's members to negotiate solo deals with any label of their choosing
Wu-Tang Clan
What do your parents say when you get disrespectful?
I brought you into this world I can take you out
This hairstyle was considered a social art for thousands of years and was decorated with embellishments by African royalty. During the time of enslavement, the number of braids worn helps indicates how many roads to take to escape to freedom.
Box Braids
To commemorate the abolition of slavery in the United States, when Union soldiers landed in Galveston, Texas with news that the Civil War was finished and that they would release all slaves. Despite the Emancipation Proclamation being issued over two years before, it had little effect at the time of signing because the enslaved people of Texas had not yet heard of it.
Juneteenth
The nation's most visible proponent of Black Nationalism, His charisma and oratory skills helped him achieve national prominence in the Nation of Islam, a belief system that merged Islam with Black nationalism
Malcolm X
I have won 14 Grammy's in rap, album, rap song, music video, Performance, and Visual Media. I’ve won a Pulitzer Prize for Music and first non-jazz or classical work to be recognized in the Pulitzer prize music category
Kendrick Lamar
Things parents say when you get into the store
Don't touch nothing, don't ask for nothing, don't look at nothing
The first name of this style translates to "people", the style represents pro-Blackness and self-love, It originated from the Zulu people of South Africa known as a Bantu ethnic group.
Bantu Knots
A Virginia couple named Richard and Mildred Loving challenged the anti-miscegenation laws on the books in their home state. The Lovings decided to take legal action when they were arrested and told they couldn’t live in Virginia because of their interracial union. Their case reached the U.S. Supreme Court, which decided on June 12, 1967, to strike down anti-miscegenation laws in the country.
Loving Day (June 12th)
First African American Woman to fly to Outer Space
Dr. Mae Jemison
One of the world's best-selling music artists, with over 140 million records sold, has won 24 Grammy Awards, the joint-most Grammy awards of any rapper along with Kanye West, also holds the record for the most number-one albums by a solo artist on the Billboard 200
Jay Z
things parents say when you entering and leaving the house too much
you either inside or outside, but you not gonna be in and outside my house
This Hairstyle was popularized in the '80s with the birth of hip-hop, black barber shapes around the U.S. has perfected the style and developed it into a form of expressionism and creativity with different designs on the side.
High top/Shape-up and Fade
Deriving from the Hausa word for shirt 'Dan Ciki', encourages all students to wear traditional garb from the continent for a day to emphasize the presence of African and African students on campus.
Dashiki Day
Performed the first successful open-heart operation in the US
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
American singer and actress. She has been credited for helping to redefine contemporary R&B, pop, and hip hop, earning her the nicknames the "Princess of R&B" and "Queen of Urban Pop".
Aliyah
Your parents say this when you want McDonalds'
You got Mcdonalds' money?