IFPTE Celebrates Black History MonthIFPTE Black History month

February is Black History Month, which is celebrated across North America as well as in several countries across the world.

2020 was a pivotal year: the realities of a worldwide deadly pandemic, economic and racial inequality and an existential climate crisis have forced humanity to open our eyes to possible yet pivotal change.

With this in mind and to advance the conversation, IFPTE celebrates Black History Month by presenting works of literature and film from Black writers, authors, and actors to present Black history from a historical perspective.

In our first installment, we present Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Professors Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Four Hundred Souls is told by ninety leading Black voices who came together to tell one of history’s great epics: the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present. The story begins with the arrival of twenty Ndongo people on the shores of the first British colony in mainland America in 1619, the year before the arrival of the Mayflower.