Blakfacts Curriculum What Messages Are Hidden in Games 10 Mar 201810 Mar 2018 Things we think about the least can often be the most important. The education of our children begins long before they ever enter a school. We teach them what to…
Blakfacts News What is a Chew Stick and Why We Should Chew Them? 24 Feb 201824 Feb 2018 Ever wonder how people cleaned their teeth before plastic toothbrushes were invented? The answer is all around us. We used sticks!? Yes, good old sticks were used and in many…
Blakfacts News Will the Real Black Panther Please Stand Up? 21 Feb 201821 Feb 2018 From the 1960's to the present when you heard about a Black Panther you thought of a Black man ready to put his life on the line for the…
Blakfacts News Birth of the Black United Students 20 Feb 201820 Feb 2018 Black students have been at Kent for well over 70 years. Over the years the history and contributions of Black people have been obscured. My family moved to Kent, Ohio…
Blakfacts News Which Way Black Studies? 7 Feb 201824 Feb 2018 Two men from the same neighborhood, graduates of the same high school and both indoctrinated in the Arts and Sciences of Western Civilization, both graduates of Kent State University. The…
Blakfacts News The Untold Story of Black History Month 2 Feb 201824 Feb 2018 Dr. Carter G. Woodson created Negro History Week back in 1926, when he was living in Washington, D.C. Negro History Week was originally celebrated during the 2nd week in February,…
Ohio's Black Athletes Ohio’s Black Athletes: 10 Years in the Making 11 Nov 201724 Feb 2018 When I first started working with children nearly 40 years ago, focusing on sports was inconceivable. My attitude was that we focused too much on sports and too little on…
Editorials Halloween: A Day of Celebration or Devilment? 27 Oct 201727 Oct 2017 Halloween is coming up in another week. I wonder how many of us will be celebrating and why? Is it just for the candy, or is there something…
Blakfacts News Got a story to tell? Let us know! 15 Oct 201727 Oct 2017 We're hard at work documenting Akron's Black history. Black history is being made and documented every day. Our job is to find it and put it into a format that…
Fundraising Fundraising for Ohio’s Black Athletes: Multimedia Production 14 Oct 201714 Oct 2017 Blakfacts Educational Research, Inc., a 501 c3 corporation, will begin its 1st fundraising campaign on GoFundMe.com beginning on November 1st, 2017 through November 31st, 2017. Our goal is to raise…
