African American Registry

09/24/2026

Hello, it’s a public holiday in South Africa

https://aaregistry.org/story/heritage-day-south-africa-is-celebrated/

*On this date in 1995, Heritage Day is affirmed. This is a South African public holiday celebrating its culture, diversity, and traditions, in the wider context of a nation that belongs to all its people. In KwaZulu-Natal, September 24 was known as Shaka Day for most people, commemorating Shaka, the...

09/19/2026

Saturday Verses (poems & lyrics)
Please read HIP HOP CHAZAL by Patricia Smith.

Gotta love
us brown girls, munching on fat, swinging blue hips,

decked out
in shells and splashes, Lawdie, bringing them woo hips.

As the
jukebox teases, watch my sistas throat the heartbreak,

inhaling
bassline, cracking backbone and singing thru hips.

Like
something boneless, we glide silent, seeping ‘tween floorboards,

wrapping
around the hims, and ooh wee, clinging like glue hips.

Engines
grinding, rotating, smokin’, gotta pull back some.

Natural
minds are lost at the mere sight of ringing true hips.

Gotta love
us girls, just struttin’ down Manhattan streets

killing the
menfolk with a dose of that stinging view. Hips.

Crying ’bout
getting old—Patricia, you need to get up off

what God
gave you. Say a prayer and start slinging. Cue hips.

BY Patricia Smith, Copyright 2007

Category: Rituals: Music, Dance, Sports

09/12/2026

Saturday Verses (poems and lyrics)
Please read A DADDY POEM by William J. Harris, 1977.

My father is a handsome guy. Looks like a cross between Clark Gable & Ernest Hemingway. If you don't believe me, I got proof: Once a white woman (at one of those parties) said to my father, "You're good looking for a colored man."

09/11/2026

Never Forget!!!!

On this date in 2001, 12 Black firefighters died during the 9/11 attack at the World Trade Center in New York City. They were among the 343 firefighters and the almost 3,000 citizens who were victims of the attack in New York City. The 12 Black firefighters were Vernon Cherry, André Fletcher, Geral...

08/29/2026

We are affirming Micharl Jacksons birthday with our Substack page 'Saturday Verses, poems & lyrics.'Michael Jackson's!

Please read MAN IN THE MIRROR sung by Michael Jackson

08/26/2026

In response to the death of Dolly Parton, AAR teaches intersecting history with her public support of African America,

*Black Lives Matter (BLM) was founded on this date in 2013. It is an international activist movement, originating in the African American community, that campaigns against violence and systemic racism toward black people.

08/18/2026

Welcome to the African American Registry - https://mailchi.mp/2b9a4727e5db/street-team-international-10348968

08/15/2026

Please read Ismail Reed

Please read THE REACTIONARY POET by Ishmael Reed.

08/08/2026

Saturday Verses (poems & lyrics)
Please read Trees by Julia Fields

Please read TREES by Julia Fields

07/25/2026

Please read SONNET TO NEGRO SOLDIERS by Joseph Seaman Cotter Jr.