Negro Day is a festival established by the African Cultural Association and is held on the first Sunday of January every year.
In addition to the festival, there is also a black man who deserves our remembrance.
Above is the polar explorer Matthew Henson, taken in 1908 on Ellesmere Island in Canada. Although historians can't confirm it, Henson is convinced he was "the first man to set foot on the Arctic."
He was Matthew Henson, one of the few African-American explorers of the time, and most likely the first to successfully reach the North Pole. But because of his race, his contribution has been largely overlooked.
Henson, dressed in a warm Inuit costume, stood in the cold wind.
Born in 1866, Henson met U.S. Naval Engineer Robert E. Peary in 1887, and the two continued to work together on six great expeditions over a period of more than 20 years.
On the way across the Arctic by land, Henson and the three Inuits in his team, as well as a sled dog, left valuable images.
Henson is an expert in dog sledding, hunter, craftsman, guide, and even fluent in Inuit.
Although Henson's contributions to polar expeditions for nearly a century have been overlooked for Peary's dazzling brilliance, in 2000 he was posthumously awarded the National Geographic Exploration Award's highest honor: the Hardberg Medal.