Regina M. Anderson, married name Regina M. Andrews, pseudonym Ursala (Ursula) Trelling, (born May 21, 1901, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. died February 5, 1993, Ossining, New York), American librarian, playwright, and patron of the arts whose New York City home was a salon for Harlem Renaissance writers and artists. Anderson attended several colleges, including Wilberforce University in Ohio and the University of Chicago. She received a Master of Library Science degree from Columbia University and worked as a librarian in the New York Public Library System, for which she produced lecture and drama series and arts exhibitions, from the early 1920s to
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Black History From the Year You Were Born
By Niesha Davis, Stacker News
On 2/9/21 at 6:30 PM EST
Each February, Black History Month is dedicated to celebrating the achievements, and reflecting on the experiences, of African Americans. What began as a week in 1926 has blossomed into 28 days of remembrance and lessons on the contributions of Black Americans.
Many Black Americans come from a lineage of captured and enslaved people who were forcibly brought to the U.S. to build the culture and infrastructure of a place in which they never asked to live. Forced immigration and centuries of cultural genocide have driven Black Americans to literally and figuratively rebuild a culture from the ground up. In the face of historical oppression and inequality slavery, Jim Crow laws, and the police violence that spawned the #BlackLivesMatter movement African Americans have continuously fought for their rights and spawned countless milestones, achievements, and freedoms. While being forced