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Black History

Black History Buffalo Education Featured 

Beyond the Cookout: Black Folks Started Memorial Day! 

May 30, 2022May 30, 2022 TheChallengerNews blackhistory, blacktradition, buffaony, memorialday

The African-American history of the federal holiday has been nearly wiped from public memory, the history books and most  official accounts.

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Black History Faith & Family Featured Western NY 

Pastor Simmons, Pastor Newkirk  Address Youth  at Sigma   “Combating Community Gun Violence” Symposium 

April 17, 2022April 16, 2022 TheChallengerNews faithfamily, gunviolence, paster simmons, pastornewkirk

The Buffalo alumnae chapter of the International Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., the Eta Rho Sigma chapter recently hosted its

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Black History Featured Generations 

“OUR HISTORY DID NO BEGIN IN CHAINS…IT WILL  NOT END IN CHAINS…”

February 25, 2022February 25, 2022 TheChallengerNews blackhistory, blackhistorymonth, blackpride, knowthyself

The human race is of African origin. The oldest known skeletal remains of anatomically modern humans (or homo sapiens) were

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Area News Black History Buffalo Featured 

FAMILY SEEKS JUSTICE FOR SIRGIO

February 25, 2022February 25, 2022 TheChallengerNews buffalony, mckinleyhigh, wny

pictured Sirgio in his hospital bed. Members of his family, mom, Aurielle  brother Elias, sister Aurielle Austin broke down in

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Area News Black History Buffalo Politics 

 Baskin Re-Elected Chair of the Erie County Legislature

January 13, 2022January 14, 2022 TheChallengerNews buffalony

Fourth straight Victory for Baskin, as Her Political Star  Continues to rise. Both Baskin and Tim Meyers, who was re-elected

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Black History Education Featured 

Remembering The Heroes Who Fought to Save Black Wall Street

June 3, 2021June 5, 2021 TheChallengerNews ajsmitherman, blackhistory, remembertulsa, tulsamassacre, tulsariots

One of the worst race massacres in the nation’s history occurred in Tulsa, Oklahoma over a 14-hour period May 31-June

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Art Black History Buffalo Education Featured 

Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center Launches New Virtual Tours and “Freedom Seekers” Curriculum

April 11, 2021April 10, 2021 TheChallengerNews blackhistory365, buffalony, niagarafallsny, virtualeducation

“Black History Now” Social Justice Education Beyond Black History Month The Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center (NFUGRR) and the

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Black History Faith & Family Voices 

God Wouldn’t Want Segregated Sanctuaries 

February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 TheChallengerNews

BLACK PEOPLE, both free and enslaved, relied on their faith to hold onto their humanity under the most inhumane circumstances. 

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Art Black History News Rochester 

The Frederick Douglass Monument

February 18, 2021February 17, 2021 TheChallengerNews buffalony, lettertotheeditor

Ten thousand people witnessed the unveiling of a bronze monument honoring Frederick Douglass in Rochester on June 9, 1899.New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt delivered the keynote

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Black History Black History 

U.N.I.A. MANIFESTO: Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World

February 12, 2021February 13, 2021 TheChallengerNews blackhistory, UNIA

The greatest mass movement of Black people in history remains that of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities

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