The Advocate’s Black History Month Collection

The advent of Jimi Hendrix to the popular music stage forever changed the genre. In fact, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame says Jimi Hendrix is “arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music. Jimi Hendrix 'creativity led him to use previously unwanted sounds caused by guitar amplifiers for artistic effect. To add on, he was one of the first to use phasing effects and fuzz d...

A retelling of a story of the Black Panther, a political activist group in the mid-20th century, Judas and the Black Messiah perfectly captures the state of affairs for black people at the time. Daniel Kaluuya’s performance as Fred Hampton and Lakeith Stanfield’s performance as Bill O’Neal could not have been carried out better. The story follows black teenager Bill O’Neal who has recently b...

One of the most famous and gifted baseball players of all time. He will forever be remembered for his grace and skill, and as a forefather of the Civil Rights Movement. Jackie Robinson went to UCLA and was the first African American to play in Major League baseball, winning League MVP and the World Series with the Los Angeles Dodgers     The greatest sprinter of all ti...

Toni Morrison was an American author who wrote children's books, plays, and novels. She won the Pulitzer prize for fiction in 1988 and the nobel prize in 1993 for her novel Beloved and became the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature. She became an officer of the French foriegn legion in 2010 and received the presidential medal of freedom from president Barack Obama i...