Author and Professor Manisha Sinha's Monthly Recap and Black Historic Perspective!

October is Black History Month in the U.K. And Miss Ireland is Black! Join us today at www.blackhistoryUniversity.com

Inauguration 2021 Amen! A tribute to Stacey Abrams, President Elect Biden and Vice President Elect Kamala Harris!

It's because being American is more than a pride we inherit, it’s the past we step into and how we repair it We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy And this effort very nearly succeeded But while democracy can be periodically delayed it can never be permanently defeated - Amanda Gorman #InaugurationDay #inauguralPoet **********

The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman 

Scripture tells us to envision that everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree And no one shall make them afraid If we’re to live up to our own time Then victory won’t lie in the blade But in all the bridges we’ve made That is the promise to glade The hill we climb If only we dare. A country that is bruised but whole, benevolent but bold, fierce and free We will not be turned around or interrupted by intimidation because we know our inaction and inertia will be the inheritance of the next generation Our blunders become their burdens But one thing is certain: If we merge mercy with might, and might with right, then love becomes our legacy and change our children’s birthright So let us leave behind a country better than the one we were left with Every breath from my bronze-pounded chest, we will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one

The  United States Capitol 1866 Blacks and Whites Celebrate the Passage of Civil Rights Amendment

1866 The Capitol: A Great America, in the Making!

An 1866 illustration from Harper’s Weekly shows white women, White Union soldiers and African Americans celebrating new legislation in the Galleries of the House of Representatives in the Capitol. The 14th Amendment, that gave former enslaved people and landless white men full citizenship. (Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives)

Join World Renowned Historian and Professor, Manisha Sinha as she lectures on the History of The U.S.Capitol;  Georgia's Black Reconstruction Legislators: Aaron A. Bradley; The Caning Of Senator Charles Sumner on the floor of Congress: John Brown, Bleedy Kansas, Border Ruffians...

Join www.BlackHistoryUniversity as we welcome Manisha Sinha for another brilliant lecture on The United States Capitol during the Reconstruction Era.

Topics: Abolitionists

1. Georgia Reconstruction Legislators: Aaron A. Bradley

2. Senator Charles Sumner

3. John Brown: Sumner, Border Ruffians

4. The Capitol Celebration during the Passage of the

1866 Civil Rights Amendment.

Manisha Sinha

Chair in American History

University of Connecticut

Department of History

Christmas, Celebrity Bible Readings, Blair Underwood

Join The Gist of Freedom as Shellie Gaines welcomes WETV’s Vice President,,Ashley McFarlin Buie! Ashley M. Buie, founder of Bird's Eye Entertainment, Inc., continues to set the entertainment world on fire. Buie has catapulted her career from Production Assistant to Executive Producer to Network Executive. She has worked on a multitude of television shows with some of today’s top television networks including: BravoTV, Discovery, Oxygen, CNN, MTV, CMT, The Travel Channel, and VH1. Ashley shares an inspiring story of how she used her recovery from a debilitating brain disease to author a faith based books.

You can watch the interview here: https://youtu.be/MuYM2Wc6p-A

The Gist of Freedom is honored to welcome Michelle Daniels! The 2020 Presidential Election is historic and Michelle explains the controversies surrounding the swing state's delayed results.  YouTube Link https://youtu.be/zdjAsom71V0

Oblate Sisters of Providence

Black Nuns at Saint Francis Academy in Baltimore.

Listening now to Filmmaker Gloria Victoria Rolando Casamayor discuss her upcoming documentary about the Oblate Sisters. Gloria’s mom an Afro-Cuban attended a school established by the Sisters in Cuba! www.BlackHistoryUniversity.com 

Elizabeth Clarisse Lange, who became later known as Mother Mary Lange, was born circa 1784, For ten years, she ran a free school for Haitian refugee children in her own home together with her friend and fellow refugee Marie Magdaline Balas.

The Oblate Sisters  continued Mother Mary's mission. They started Saint Francis Academy, a school for African American children. They provided a home for orphans, purchased the freedom for the enslaved and educated them.

Oblate Sisters of Providence

Black nuns teach African American girls at Saint Francis Academy in Baltimore...

Elizabeth Clarisse Lange, who became later known as Mother Mary Lange, was born circa 1784 in either Haiti or Cuba, to where her wealthy parents had fled from the Haitian revolution. She arrived in Baltimore in the early 19th-century and began to devote her life, along with her home, money and education to the education of her less fortunate fellow refugees from Haiti.

For ten years, she ran a free school for Haitian refugee children in her own home together with her friend and fellow refugee Marie Magdaline Balas.

Father Joubert, a Frenchman from an aristocratic family, fought against the popular opinion of the day that blacks had no need of an education because they had neither souls nor minds capable of learning.

In order to justify slavery, Americans had had to convince themselves that African Americans were not fully human. Father Joubert set out to change this prejudice.

In 1828, Father Joubert asked Elizabeth Lange and Marie Balas to become novices of the first Catholic order of nuns for African American women. Elizabeth Lange became the first superior general, Mother Mary Lange, of the Oblate Sisters of Providence.

The Oblate Sisters of Providence continued Mother Mary's mission of educating black children but also attended to other needs of the black community. Their motto was then, and still is today, to be open to the needs of the times. They started Saint Francis Academy, their school for African American children,provided a home for orphans, purchased the freedom of slaves and gave them an education.

Professor Manisha  Sinha Examines America's Loss: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Landmark Civil Rights Events.

Free Afrcan Society's Black Nurses and the 1793 Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic

In 1793, Philadelphia was as large and as cosmopolitan a city as could be found in the new United States. Until 1800, Philadelphia served as the U.S. capitol. The city was also home to a substantial number of people of color. The yellow fever outbreak that began that summer led to an outcry for help to the Black Benevolent Societies..

As the disease spread, so too did panic. Some 20,000 residents fled the city. Deaths became so frequent that the College of Physicians asked city officials to stop tolling bells for the dead because the constant ringing was so oppressive.

With the exodus of so many able-bodied people, care for the sick and dying was limited at best. In desperation, civic leaders — including Declaration of Independence signatory Benjamin Rush, M.D., then a professor at the Institutes of Medicine — approached the city’s black community for help. Like many people of the time, he believed that black people had some special immunity to the virus.

The leaders of Philadelphia’s Free African Society, a mutual aid organization founded in 1787 by ministers Absalom Jones and Richard Allen in partnership with black abolitionists like William Gray, willingly agreed to provide that help, often asking little or no pay. Jones and Allen, who had some medical training, also played an active role in treating the sick, sometimes working directly with Rush. By their own account, they cared for “upwards of 800 people.”

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Image: Black Cross Nurses

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