Student News Net - Britannica

Monday, September 6, 2010

Henry Aaron: from bottle caps to baseballs
Feb. 19, 2010 - As a young boy, Henry Aaron used a broom handle or a stick for a baseball bat and bottle caps for a baseball.

Gravity wins coin toss
Feb. 2, 2010 - When the coin is tossed Sunday at Super Bowl XLIV, it will sail into the air and then fall on the field. That's not what it did when it was tossed in space.

Museum honors Greensboro Four
Feb. 3, 2010 - Fifty years ago at a lunch counter in a F.W. Woolworth store in Greensboro, the "Greensboro Four" advanced a nascent civil rights movement by simply sitting.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Jan. 18, 2010 - In memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., President Obama spoke about his life yesterday at the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church in Washington.

'America I Am' opens in Philadelphia
Feb. 17, 2009 - Open now in Philadelphia, 'America I Am: The African American Imprint' is a traveling museum exhibition. (Update Feb. 2, 2010 - It is currently in Los Angeles).

Historical feature: Rosa Parks (1913-2005)
Feb. 14, 2009 - Along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks defined the civil rights movement from the moment she refused to give her seat on a bus to a white passenger in 1955. Student News Net attended a tribute to Rosa Parks on November 1, 2005 at the Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit following her death on October 24, 2005. The following is the story from that day with minor edits for clarification.

Historical bio: Garrett A. Morgan (1877-1963)
Feb. 13, 2009 - Did you know there are about 160,000 traffic signals in the United States? The next time you are stopped at one, thank Garrett A. Morgan, an African American inventor.

U.S Army rededicates Buffalo Soldier statue
Feb. 21, 2009 - On Feb. 5, Gen. George W. Casey Jr., chief of staff of the Army, rededicated a statue at the Pentagon honoring Buffalo soldiers, all-black units made up of former slaves, freedmen and black Civil War soldiers.

Detroit: Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
Feb. 11, 2009 - While on a visit to Denmark and a memorial to Danish World War II heroes, Dr. Charles H. Wright, a Detroit physician, decided an African American resource center was needed in his hometown.

First Lady hosts students
Feb. 20, 2009 - On Wednesday, First Lady Michelle Obama invited a group of 6th and 7th graders to the White House in honor of Black History Month.

Washington: Museum established in 2003
Feb. 13, 2009 - The National Museum of African American History and Culture, NMAAHC, was established in 2003 by an Act of Congress. A site was selected in 2006 near the Washington Monument in Washington D.C.