Events
Black pride is a slogan used in the US to convey feelings of self respect and pride among the African American community. Black pride is a national movement that is closely linked to the American Civil Rights Movement, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Congress of Racial Equality during the 1960s and 1970s.
Other links to Black pride can be found in the country of Brazil and in the Rastafarian movement often associated with the Jamaican music culture and Reggae.
More recently, black pride movements have sprung up across the country, in a revitalized attempt at racial equality. From east coast metropolises like New York, Baltimore, Washington, D.C, Miami, to the southern states of Atlanta (ATL) and the Carolinas, all the way to Los Angeles (LA) the black pride movement is seeing increased interest again.
Piggybacking on the name of the black pride movement, many black gay pride movements and events are also popping up in many of the same cities mentioned above: in New York (NYC) and Baltimore, DC and Miami, Atlanta, Orlando, and LA. Black gay pride movements have the same goal as the original black pride movements, to promote feelings of self respect and pride within the black gay pride community.
In cities across the country, the black pride movement is helping to fight for equality among the races. Cities like LA and New York where racial violence is a pandemic, black pride is helping African Americans raise awareness of the black racial identity. In other cities like Miami, Atlanta, Baltimore and DC, black pride is allowing African Americans to express solidarity among black society.
On this site we’ll concentrate on the rich and diverse history of African American culture and the black pride movement spurred by the need for equality and equal rights during a tumultuous time in American history. The black pride movement was aided by writings and poems from several black authors. Before during and after the black pride movement many African Americans invented useful items that we could not imagine life without today.