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Posted by Cosandra Calloway on Tuesday, February 15, 2011
A plantation is a large artificially established forest, farm or estate,
where crops are grown for sale, often in distant markets rather than
for local on-site consumption. The term plantation is informal and not
precisely defined.
Crops grown on plantations include fast-growing trees (often conifers),
cotton, coffee, tobacco, sugar cane, sisal, some oil seeds (notably oil palms)
and rubber trees. Farms that produce alfalfa, Lespedeza, clover, and
other forage crops are usually not... Continue reading...
Posted by Cosandra Calloway on Sunday, February 13, 2011
The best interviews on Callywood After Dark and Callyood Live.2009 -2010
Callywood Naiton and Callywoodites take a listen to the Callywood's Sunday's Best every Sunday from 1:30pm - 3pm Pst.
THERE WILL BE NO LIVE CALL'S TAKEN DURING CALLYWOOD'S SUNDAY'S BEST...
ALL PRE RECORDED INTERVIEWS ON CALLYWOOD AFTER DARK AND CALLYWOOD LIVE....
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Posted by Cosandra Calloway on Saturday, February 12, 2011
The hardest-working (and, yes, funniest) sista in showbiz drops in on Callywood
host Cosandra Calloway to chat about her role in this summer’s
big-screen flick, Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Plus: 2011 Grammy
nominees Eric Roberson and Calvin Richardson.
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Posted by Cosandra Calloway on Saturday, February 12, 2011
Slavery in the United States was a form of unfree labor which existed as a legal institution in North America
for more than a century before the founding of the United States in
1776, and continued mostly in the South until the passage of the
Thirteenth Amendment to the United States
Constitution in 1865. The first English colony in North America,
Virginia, first imported Africans in 1619, a practice established in the
Spanish colonies as early as the 1560s. Most slaves were black and w... Continue reading...
Posted by Cosandra Calloway on Friday, February 11, 2011
Slavery in the United States was a form of unfree labor which existed as
a legal institution in North America for more than a century before the
founding of the United States in 1776, and continued mostly in the
South until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States
Constitution in 1865. The first English colony in North America,
Virginia, first imported Africans in 1619, a practice established in the
Spanish colonies as early as the 1560s. Most slaves were black and w... Continue reading...
Posted by Cosandra Calloway on Thursday, February 10, 2011
Charles Hamilton Houston (September 3, 1895 – April 22, 1950) was an African American lawyer, Dean of Howard
University Law School and NAACP Litigation Director who played a
significant role in dismantling the Jim Crow laws and trained future
Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall.
Houston was born in Washington, D.C. His father worked as a lawyer.
Houston started at Amherst College in
1911, was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, and graduated as
valedictorian in 1915. He... Continue reading...
Posted by Cosandra Calloway on Thursday, February 10, 2011
Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955) was an American
educator and civil rights leader best known for starting a school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida, that eventually became Bethune-Cookman University
and for being an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Born in South Carolina to parents who had been slaves and having to work
in fields at age five, she took an early interest in her own education.
With the help of benefactors, Bethune ... Continue reading...
Posted by Cosandra Calloway on Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was
an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her
friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence
on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz
instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and
tempo.
Critic John Bush wrote that Holiday "changed the art of American pop
vocals forever." She co-wrote only a few songs, but several of t... Continue reading...
Posted by Cosandra Calloway on Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an
American educator, author, orator, and political leader. He was the
dominant figure in the African American community in the United States
from 1890 to 1915. He was representative of the last generation of black
leaders born in slavery and spoke on behalf of blacks living in the
South. Washington was able throughout the final 25 years of his life to
maintain his standing as the major black leader because of th... Continue reading...
Posted by Cosandra Calloway on Sunday, February 6, 2011
 
Bursting from an array of musical brilliance, singer
/ songwriter / pianist AVERY*Sunshine emerges onto the scene with her
soon to be released self-titled debut album. Rooted in gospel, she
reaches deep into that cornucopia of style and sound and sings a song
which articulates the complexities of life with luminous insight.
Fluent in many languages from soul and house to classical and hip hop,
AVERY*Sunshine expresses with a voice that speaks boldly and tells a
uniquely familiar s... Continue reading...
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