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Toronto Caribbean Carnival journal 2013.  People describing costumes. Some views from the Atlanta Caribbean Carnival celebration in 2013  Louis’ report on  2013 Notting Hill Carnival

Time to know more about great black leaders, activists and personalities: Black activists The Harlem Renaissance Black writers  

The widely acclaimed author of Beloved, Tar Baby and The Bluest Eye was born on February 18th, 1931. An American novelist, profesor and editor, she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 and the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1993 and an impressive list of awards.

Monday February 17th is Presidents’Day… Click on the picture to enter the White House’s Site. 44 Presidents’rap The US president on Enchanted Learning The US presidents on POTUS The White House site the us president ppt The US president, missions and charges

Born on February 4th, she was the woman who stood up by staying seated…. Black History and black activism

He was born on February 17th and was the co-founder of the Black Panther Party. Huey P. Newton was an activist, in favour with violent resistance to the racist US society.

Born a slave in February 1818 and dead on February 20th 1895, Frederick Douglass became one of the most important figures of the abolitionist movement and the first Black American citizen to hold a high government function. See his biography.

On February 17th, 1863, businessman Henri Dunant, from Switzerland, created what will become the Red Cross…Read here The Red Cross International Committee site The American Red Cross Site