Schedule of events for Black History Month. At first, it doesn't sound like the stuff of high drama. Two African-American sisters, both more than 100 years old, talk directly to the audience about what they've seen in a century of living, while they cook a birthday dinner in honor of their late father. Visit our Black History Month Web site by clicking the graphic. But don't get too cozy.
Life is short.
Sadie Delany tells her audience. Both sisters did create remarkable lives. Sadie Delany received a master's degree from Columbia University and became the first African-American to teach home economics in New York City high schools. Bessie Delany graduated from the Columbia Dental School in 1923, the second black woman in New York to be accredited as a dentist. During the 27 years of her dental practice in Harlem, she never raised her fees.