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Encyclopedia > African American Registry
The African American Registry
URL www.aaregistry.com
Commercial? no
Type of site Online historical database of notable African-Americans
Registration 11 February 2000
Available language(s): English
Owner
Created by Benjamin Mchie
Launched July 2000
Current status Active

The African American Registry (The Registry) is a non-profit educational resource for the learning community to supply teachers with the information, method, and materials to provide a solid educational background in Black history and heritage, in the sciences, business, the arts, and all facets of academics and life. Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a technical, Web-related term used in two distinct meanings: in popular usage, it is a widespread synonym for Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) — many popular and technical texts will use the term URL when referring to URI; strictly, the idea of a uniform syntax for... February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A non-profit organization (often called non-profit org or simply non-profit or not-for-profit) can be seen as an organization that doesnt have a goal to make a profit. ... African American history is the history of an ethnic group in the United States also known as American blacks or black Americans, whose dominant ancestry is from Sub-Saharan Africa. ... Cultural heritage (national heritage or just heritage) is the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations. ... For the scientific journal named Science, see Science (journal). ... Wall Street, Manhattan is the location of the New York Stock Exchange and is often used as a symbol for the world of business. ... The Arts is a broad subdivision of culture, comprised of many expressive disciplines. ... Plato is credited with the inception of academia: the body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. ...


The Registry is used to train teachers for content classroom use in all subjects employing educational companion products which support the website. Currently there are two types of yearly calendars, Black Heritage/365, and an education card game for children aged eight and older named, Fishing the Registry. The organization supports itself through product sales, and modest fees for presentations, workshops, seminars, training and programs. In September 2004 the agency received its 501(c)(3) status and now adds donations and foundation support towards its mission of teaching African-American heritage as American heritage in all subjects everyday through training, curriculum, technology and products. A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, images, videos and other digital assets and hosted on a particular domain or subdomain on the World Wide Web. ... A page from the Hindu calendar 1871-72. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... A seminar is a form of academic teaching, normally at a university in small groups where students are requested to actively participate during meetings. ... 501(c)(3) is a provision of the US tax code that provides exempt status, for Federal income tax purposes, for some non-profit organizations in the United States (see 26 U.S.C. Â§ 501(c)(3)). The term refers to: Section 501. ...


External links

The African American Registgry official website



 
 

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