Most Black Americans Have Black History Family Stories To Share

Wednesday, 12 February 2025 

By: TB Obwoge 

I know so many Black Americans have such rich history within their own families, I think in light of the way our contributions are trying to be erased that it is about time that we start sharing our stories.

I've been feeling low, very low and working on my nonprofit, which is profit-less, makes me even feel overwhelmed. But it is my creation & I want to it to make it. 

I haven't been earning much in over a year on this platform, I recently dumped money into another years membership. I have been working on a few things but stuck in a cycle of immense sadness and desperation lately. 

So I decided to make videos about the Black history within on my own family. Last year I made a small video about my grandfather, since I don't like posting myself on social media talking it was just photos. However this year, I gave in.

I sucked up the fact that I don't like how my face is aging, never really liked my voice and started making videos about the people in my family that should be talked about for their parts in making of not only Black History but American History. 

Both of my grandfathers have lived lives in which they made strides that I feel should be counted whenever people talk about Black History. 

The grandfather in this photo, though I didn't really care for him as a man, as a human in many ways, for many things, made national news. He being Alfred Eugene Henry, my mother's father. 

His friends simply called him Al, his mistress of over 50-years called him Alfred, yes he had a girlfriend but was legally married to my now 94-year old grandmother until he died. He wasn't kind to her at all, the only relationship I knew of him was with Ms. Yvonne.

She was one of the kindest women I knew growing up, I loved her voice but never thought much until I was older that my grandparents never divorced.

My grandfather Al, played for the Negro Leagues. When I was 18-years old he sold his home in New Jersey and moved to California. I don't think I ever spoke to him again in my life. 

He made the news one day and it was all my family could talk about. Alfred Henry former Negro League Baseball Player arrested on federal charges. 

All I could do was shake my head, then when I heard the story, that was the first time I came to the realization that in the United States, if they wanted you too look like a villain, you'd look like a villain!

In a video below I tell you all about his arrest and play a portion of a BS article written by some moron in North Carolina.

The grandfather I truly enjoyed died around the same age my father was when he died, 64-years old. Though my father died well into my adulthood, his father died before I was even a teen, he was my hero. 

Sadly I never knew all that he had achieved because he never talked about his career to us, he was just a grandfather. I remember that my dad talked to him harshly sometimes, just as bad as he talked to me all my life. 

My grandfather was James Gibson, he was a Tuskegee Airman. Many people don't know that there were over 15,000 of them. Though not all flew planes they were about of the group in the airforce. My aunt told me that she was talking to my grand-pop while he was in the hospital, one of his many stays there. 

While watching the news he saw a former airman he knew, he though called him by a different rank than what they used on the tv. My aunt corrected him but my grand-pop told her he wasn't that rank when he served with the man. 

At his furneral they were there, I remember them like it was yesterday but many of them were very old. One man's legs were shaking so bad, my older brother & sister laughed, loudly. I think even the man heard them laugh, I don't remember if I laughed or not but if I did, I greatly regret it. I was even angry when she was telling me the story of what he went through. 

Oh the foolish things that children can do!

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