Does your university and college offer African American history and culture courses? Non-history majors might benefit from the BHS African American history themes as well. For example, what are the links between some of our country's earliest universities and colleges, the Atlantic Slave Trade, and American chattel slavery?

BHS African American history enrichment presentations or webinars include Q&A sessions to serve educational communities.

Racial and ethnic diversity among educators has increased in K-12 public schools and higher education. However, teachers and university faculty remain less racially and ethnically diverse than the students they serve.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics.

Is African American history, legacies, and relevance covered in your middle or high school curriculum? Does its absence raise more questions than it answers? Be curious about what you could be missing.

BHS African American history enrichment presentations can supplement American history lessons to provide more inclusive perspectives. It can inspire and drive individuals to build on the achievements and difficulties of earlier generations and create a better future.

Overwhelming, about 90% of African Americans primarily learn about Black history from people they trust, family and friends. Those who feel at least a little informed about U.S. Black history are more likely to say they learned everything or most things they know about it from family and friends (43%) than from the media (30%), the internet (27%), K-12 schooling, (23%) or college, if they attended (24%).

Many Black immigrants (Caribbean, Latin America, and Africa) learn about Black American history from the media.

Source: Pew Research Center

Is early African American history and culture offered at your adult education university, college, or vocational institution? Even those who are not history majors can benefit from the variety of BHS presentation themes.

BHS enrichment presentations or webinars can broaden the knowledge and perceptions of diverse students. The questions posed by students are a vital component of a successful presentation experience. BHS may provide students with historical insights about the communities they may serve after graduation.

Are the seniors in your group interested in the changes that African American history has undergone since they were in high school or college? Research and our understanding of early American history and its significance have been transformed by new research, digital technologies, internet databases, and the international sharing of scholarship.

BHS African American history enrichment presentations or webinars include Q&A sessions to serve the needs of senior citizen communities that are lifelong learners.

American adults are divided on issues of the history of race, legacy of slavery, and how to address it in organizations, institutions, and businesses.

Source: Pew Research Center

Why was the Church of England conflicted in the 1600s? It offered African and American-born slaves Christian salvation and baptism while denying them family, marriage, and freedom from earthly bondage.

Black Americans, both free and enslaved, were able to assemble and worship in predominately White or independent Black churches until an 1800s incident raised suspicions and restrictions on the Black preachers’ message to their congregations. What exactly was it? BHS African American history enrichment presentations or webinars include Q&A sessions to serve faith-based communities.

A primary European religious justification for the Atlantic Slave Trade and chattel slavery, was that West Africans were non-Christians. But why were some of the earliest captives imported into British North America converted African Catholics?

One interesting story involves a former Catholic slave from the French Caribbean who became a prominent hairdresser and philanthropist in New York (1700–1800). He is under consideration for sainthood. Will he become a saint like Saint Maurice, the Ethiopian? BHS enrichment presentations include Q&A sessions to serve faith-based communities.

Why were early Americans and Europeans interested in writing about the extraordinary stories of African Muslim captives and depicting them in portrait paintings and etchings?

Were some of the earliest Muslims in colonial America imported on slave ships? Do the names listed on a 1700s ledger from Cape Coast Castle in Ghana suggest that these captives were Muslims? Allah Ambah and one child, Allah Cumah, Ajua, Abba, Quamino, and Quabino (UK National Archives). BHS African American history enrichment presentations or webinars include Q&A sessions to serve faith-based communities.

Since the American Revolution, African Americans have served in the US military. However, did the country's forefathers consider the future consequences of enlisting White and Black soldiers to fight alongside one another for American independence?

The military was segregated from the 19th to the mid-20th century, but why did civil rights leaders advocate for desegregation in the military before the civilian sector? BHS enrichment presentations help communities appreciate the links between military service and the African American struggle for freedom and citizenship rights.

Are today's African American service-oriented enterprises founded on the legacies of free Black communities of farmers, skilled craftsmen, food caterers, coachmen, barbers, and others from 1600 to 1700?

BHS enrichment presentations offer your business, organization, or government agency an African American history experience with Q&A sessions. BHS can also augment diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI) programs, which sometimes overlook the importance of African American history and culture.

“I was never taught this part of Black history in my high school. Why didn’t they teach us this?”

“I brought my children to the museum, so they can learn about the history of their ancestors.”

“Honestly, I don’t know why I have to take a Black history course in college?” Why?

“I’m angry! … I had to wait until I’m 80 years old to learn that Black soldiers fought in the American Revolution! All we were taught in school was Chrispus Attucks.”

“I minister a predominately Black congregation. They repeatedly had conversations with me about their perspectives, but I couldn’t understand their experiences, until I watched your presentation.”

“What happened to slaves who were too old to work for their masters? Did they cast them off the plantations?”

“My family is in denial about our Indian great, great, grandmother. When I saw the photo … she was a Black woman.”

“What can you tell me about slaves with disabilities? What did they do and how did they survive?”

(1965, Korea) “… I had never been called ‘American’ before! …even when I came back to the states, I was called Colored, Negro, darkie, minority…but never an American!” LtCol. F. Horn.

“I found out I’m a White descendent of the Benjamin Banneker’s (1700s free Black Marylander & inventor) Irish grandmother … and I’m proud of it.”

After listening to the legal history of slavery, a young Black male student responded in frustration, “… but tell me what did they do about it?” He wanted stories of Black self-determination to counterbalance oppression.