Jan 20, 2023 · The theme for 2023, “Black Resistance,” is intended to highlight how Black Americans have fought against racial inequality. Black Americans’ resistance to racial inequality has deep roots in U.S. history and has taken many forms – from slave rebellions during the colonial era and through the Civil War to protest movements in the 1950s ...

What does Black resistance mean to me? Black resistance means activism, freedom, love, family and hope. Black people in America have resisted oppression in systemic, institutional, interpersonal and intrapersonal forms for centuries. Resistance can be both good and bad, and it means different things for different people.

Black Resistance in the Early 20th Century: Debate: How Should African Americans Achieve Equality? A teaching activity in which students enact a debate among four African American leaders at the turn of the century, about what strategy the black community should adopt to achieve full equality in the twentieth century.

Aug 1, 2023 · Black resistance is the foundation of American democracy. Resistance for Black Americans started in the 1800s, as Black Americans were mistreated and forced into chattel slavery. A major mechanism of resistance was marching. An effort to combat racial injustice with the goal of reaching equal rights for Black Americans.

Feb 16, 2023 · Black resistance is the result of Black persistence and Black insistence. It is about showing up and showing out in every space in which we exist and thrive. There is no shortage of the opportunities we can reach—and every opportunity we pursue leaves behind a path for others to follow and use that confidence to forge new journeys.

At the heart of the Black Joy movement is what many scholars, journalists, authors, and others are describing as resistance, resilience, and reclamation of Black Humanity. Life brings everyone challenges, disappointments, losses, and unexpected difficulties, regardless of race.

Feb 1, 2023 · For Black Americans the connection to resistance begins in the 1690s when enslaved Africans were first brutally captured and delivered to colonial Virginia. This resistance persisted and stretched through the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights movement, and the Black Powers revolution.

Black people have advocated for ways to nurture and protect Black lives, and for autonomy of their physical and intellectual bodies through armed resistance, nonviolence, education, literature, media, and legislation/politics.

The 2025 Black History Month theme, African Americans and Labor, focuses on the various and profound ways that work and working of all kinds – free and unfree, skilled, and unskilled, vocational and voluntary – intersect with the collective experiences of Black people.

Jan 17, 2025 · Black people have resisted oppression, injustice, fear, and persecution from the days of the first slave ships' arrival upon these shores. Slavery was met with many forms of resistance, from outright rebellion to escape (Underground Railroad) to abolition, politics, and, ultimately, civil war.