Black History Pioneer: Oscar Micheaux

Oscar Devereaux Micheaux (January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951) was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films. Although predated by the short lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company that put out smaller films, he is regarded as the first African-American feature filmmaker, and the most prominent producer of race films.

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Valentine's Day Poem

She asked to be my valentine
I told her I didn’t have time
To celebrate meaningless holidays
Used to stimulate economies
I’ve never been shot by Cupid’s arrow
And it can’t be found in the Bible
My little brother called it a pink Halloween
I translated it as we mask our feelings for 364 days
And then expect a teddy bear and flowers to say what should already be felt
I look better in black and orange than pink anyway
I’d ask for it to be completely wiped off the calendar if it wasn’t my mother’s birthday
I love her but that’s about as far as my feelings go for the day
Going to be a lot of broke dudes walking around next week
Just so their girls could grin from cheek to cheek for 24 hours
Then go back to fussing
I’m not oppose to love just lusting
I believe in faith but have none in trusting
The last time Valentine’s Day was cool was elementary school
You hand out suckers and give the special girl Aladdin and Princess Jasmine
Hoping that would one day be you and her
Then you grow up and learn fairy tales only happen in Disney movies
I’m not anti Valentine’s just think it’s overrated
But I’ll be respectful if you celebrate it
Happy Valentine’s Day to you and yours

Black History Pioneer: Robert Johnson

Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938) was an American blues singer and musician. His landmark recordings from 1936–1937 display a combination of singing, guitar skills, and songwriting talent that have influenced later generations of musicians. Johnson's shadowy, poorly documented life and death at age 27 have given rise to much legend, including a Faustian myth. As an itinerant performer who played mostly on street corners, in juke joints, and at Saturday night dances, Johnson enjoyed little commercial success or public recognition in his lifetime.
His records sold poorly during his lifetime, and it was only after the first reissue of his recordings on LP in 1961 that his work reached a wider audience. Johnson is now recognized as a master of the blues, particularly of the Delta blues style. He is credited by many rock musicians as an important influence; Eric Clapton has called Johnson "the most important blues singer that ever lived". Johnson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as an "Early Influence" in their first induction ceremony in 1986. He was ranked fifth in Rolling Stone's list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.

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Black History Pioneer: Billy Taylor

Billy Taylor (July 24, 1921 – December 28, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. He was the Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University in Greenville, and since 1994, he was the artistic director for jazz at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

Taylor was a also a Jazz activist. He sat on the Honorary Founders Board of The Jazz Foundation of America. In 1989, Billy Taylor, Ann Ruckert, Herb Storfer and Phoebe Jacobs started The Jazz Foundation to save the homes and the lives of America's elderly jazz and blues musicians, later including musicians that survived Hurricane Katrina.

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Black History Pioneer: George Moses Horton

George Moses Horton (1797–1884) was an African-American slave who composed poetry. He was born into slavery on William Horton's plantation in Northampton County, NC. As a very young child, he and several family members were moved to a tobacco farm in rural Chatham County, North Carolina, when his owner relocated. Horton composed poems in his mind through his teen years. He was allowed by his master to visit the nearby University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he recited poems to students who eagerly wrote them down and paid him for his compositions. His fame spread, and a collection of poems was published under the title The Hope of Liberty (1829). Horton was the first black southern author and the first African American poet to produce a volume in more than half a century.

Two more collections of Horton's poetry include Poetical Works (1845) and Naked Genius (1865). Horton began calling himself "the Colored Bard of North Carolina." Many of his works were vivid and powerful attacks on slavery.
After the American Civil War, Horton moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he lived until his death. Once in the north, he never published another verse.
During the summer of 2006, UNC Chapel Hill renamed a newly built dorm, previously known as Hinton James North, to George Moses Horton dormitory.

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Black History Pioneer: Claudette Colvin

Claudette Colvin (born September 5, 1939) is a pioneer of the African American civil rights movement. She was the first person to resist bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, preceding the better known Rosa Parks incident by nine months. The court case stemming from her refusal to give up her seat on the bus, decided by the U.S. District Court, ended bus segregation in Alabama.
Colvin's pioneering effort was not publicized for long by Montgomery's black leaders because she was an unmarried pregnant woman.

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